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Registered charity · Bath

First Steps (Bath)

  • 13 trustees
  • Income £2.0m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Economic/community Development/employment
Where
Bath And North East Somerset
Website
www.firststepsbath.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
First Steps (Bath)
Registered
1992

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£2.0m£2.0m
  • 2024£1.7m£1.9m
  • 2023£1.6m£1.5m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.3m£1.4m
  • 2021£1.4m£1.2m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 14%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO ADVANCE THE DEVELOPMENT AND EDUCATION OF CHILDREN BELOW COMPULSORY SCHOOL AGE (BY ENCOURAGING PARENTS TO UNDERSTAND AND PROVIDE FOR THE NEEDS OF THEIR CHILDREN) IN PARTICULAR THROUGH THE PROVISION OF SAFE AND SATISFYING GROUP PLAY IN WHICH PARENTS HAVE THE RIGHT TO TAKE PART AND BY ENCOURAGING THE STUDY OF THE NEEDS OF SUCH CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES AND BY PROMOTING PUBLIC INTEREST AND RECOGNITION OF SUCH NEEDS IN THE CITY OF BATH AND AS A RESULT OF THE PROVISION OF SUCH FACILITIES TO RELIEVE CASES OF NEED HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS.

Grants received

24 grants · £55,759 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

  • Quartet Community Foundation · £39,407 (21 grants)
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £13,080 (2 grants)
  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology · £3,272

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Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

13 trustees on the board

4.8y median 2.5y
average tenure
14y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (12)

Portfolio (1)

10
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Economic/community Development/employment 13Education/training 13The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 13

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Health and social care 10Education 1Finance 1

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£2.0m latest income
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

2.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 4.1 in 2021

54 from 42 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1012690
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 22 OCTOBER 1991 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS DATED 10 JUNE 1992, 14 APRIL 2004 AND 12 FEBRUARY 2007
Companies House
Company number 02656485 · Active
Contact on the register
01225444791 · info@firststepsbath.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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