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Registered charity · Birmingham

Aquarius Action Projects

  • 3 trustees
  • Income £8.6m (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

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 Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability
Where
Birmingham City, Coventry City, Solihull, Wolverhampton and more
Website
www.aquarius.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Aquarius Action Projects
Registered
1992

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£8.6m£8.0m
  • 2024£6.4m£5.8m
  • 2023£6.3m£5.3m
Earlier years
  • 2022£5.7m£5.1m
  • 2021£5.7m£5.2m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 56%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

1. THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS AMONGST: PERSONS WHO ARE SUFFERING FROM DRUG ABUSE, ALCOHOL MISUSE, GAMBLING ADDICTION OR OTHER BEHAVIOURAL PROBLEMS; AND THE FAMILIES AND DEPENDANTS OF SUCH PERSONS WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF HARDSHIP AND DISTRESS2. THE PREVENTION OF DRUG ABUSE, ALCOHOL MISUSE, GAMBLING AND OTHER BEHAVIOURAL PROBLEMS THROUGH THE PROVISION OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING FOR PROFESSIONALS AND VOLUNTEERS IN THOSE FIELDS3. THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC WITH REGARD TO THE DANGERS OF DRUG ABUSE, ALCOHOL MISUSE, GAMBLING ADDICTION AND OTHER BEHAVIOURAL PROBLEMS; AND4. TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PREVENTING PEOPLE BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED, PARTICULARLY DUE TO SUBSTANCE MISUSE OR GAMBLING, RELIEVING THE NEEDS OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AND ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY

Grants received

24 grants · £3,083,110 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

Most recent

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.

3 trustees on the board

1.3y median 1y
average tenure
3y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
20.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (2)

Portfolio (1)

3
company-linked trustees

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

Disability 3Education/training 3The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 3

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 12Education 4Property 2

Gaps to watch

  • Small board - little cover if a trustee leaves

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£8.6m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025
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.

5.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 6.8 in 2021

204 from 148 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
1014305
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 27/9/89 NOW ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION PASSED ON 10 DECEMBER 2010 AND FILED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 23 DECEMBER 2010AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 03/03/2015 as amended on 03 Dec 2020 as amended on 31 May 2024
Companies House
Company number 02427100 · Active
Contact on the register
01216228181 · headoffice@aquarius.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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