The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 6th September 2026

Help Fund

Registered charity 1017898 Registered since 1993

Operates: Kent

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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.

18 trustees on the board

8.9y median 9y
average tenure
12y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

9.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (17)

Portfolio (1)

2
company-linked trustees

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

The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 18Amateur Sport 1Education/training 1

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 1Education 1

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 2 years.
2021
2022
incomespending£12k latest income · income exceeded spending in 2021 and 2022

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

Connected through a shared trustee

Also active in the same field

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Emailhelpfund@kent.gov.uk
Phone+3000416733
AddressKENT COUNTY COUNCIL, SESSIONS HOUSE, COUNTY ROAD, MAIDSTONE, ME14 1XQ

Finances

£12,280 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£12,453£4,078
2022£12,280£10,307
2023
2024
2025

What it does

What

The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

Who

Other Defined Groups

How

Makes Grants To Individuals

Charitable objects

TO GRANT ASSISTANCE TO CASES OF NEED TO THE DEPENDANTS OF EMPLOYEES OF THE DONOR WHO HAVE DIED WHILST IN THE SERVICE OF THE DONOR AND TO GRANT ASSISTANCE TO THE DEPENDANTS AS AFORESAID IN CASES OF NEED ARISING AS A RESULT OF THE SAID EMPLOYEES BEING ON SICK LEAVE WITHOUT PAY OR PAY AT A REDUCED RATE AND TO GRANT ASSISTANCE TO PREMATURELY RETIRED EMPLOYEES OF THE DONOR IN CASES OF NEED ARISING THROUGH ILL HEALTH OR OTHER CIRCUMSTANCES AND AT THE DISCRETION OF THE TRUSTEES TO GRANT ASSISTANCE TO FORMER EMPLOYEES OF THE DONOR IN CASES OF NEED IN CIRCUMSTANCES NOT COVERED BY THE ABOVE AND TO GRANT ASSISTANCE TO EMPLOYEES OF THE DONOR IN CASES OF NEED IN CIRCUMSTANCES NOT COVERED BY THE ABOVE.

Governing document: TRUST DEED DATED 9 FEBRUARY 1993 AS AMENDED ON 7 JUNE 1995

Trustees (18)

18trustees
41median age
0aged 70+

Connected charities (1)

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