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Registered charity · Essex

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  • 5 trustees
  • Income £2.1m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources

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
Disability, Economic/community Development/employment
Where
Essex
Website
www.e-a.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
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Registered
1993

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£2.1m£1.9m
  • 2024£1.3m£1.1m
  • 2023£1.1m£959k
Earlier years
  • 2022£945k£888k
  • 2021£890k£843k
Charitable objects

TO RELIEVE NEED AMONG AND ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF DISABLED PEOPLE BY PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF VOCATIONAL TRAINING ENABLING SUCH PEOPLE TO ACQUIRE SKILLS THE POSSESSION OF WHICH WILL ASSIST THEM TO OBTAIN EMPLOYMENT OR OTHERWISE BECOME SELF-SUPPORTING

Board analysis for researchers

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.

5 trustees on the board

5.2y median 5y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (5)

5
company-linked trustees

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

Disability 5Economic/community Development/employment 5

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

Business services 5Property 1

Gaps to watch

  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

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£2.1m 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.

0.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months

54 from 26 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
1016182
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 9 DECEMBER 1992
Companies House
Company number 02772286 · Active
Contact on the register
01279 450299 · info@e-a.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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