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Registered charity · London

The Drinks Trust

  • 13 trustees
  • Income £1.0m (2024)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

Also 1 organisation acting as trustee: Neil Peter Barker.

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

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About

What it does
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Northern Ireland
Website
www.drinkstrust.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Drinks Trust
Registered
1993

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£1.0m£1.2m
  • 2023£1.0m£1.4m
  • 2022£1.2m£1.6m
Earlier years
  • 2021£1.4m£1.5m
  • 2020£2.4m£2.1m

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Charitable objects

ASSISTING MEMBERS OF THE WINE AND SPIRIT TRADES AND ANCILLARY TRADES ORGANISATIONS AND INSTITUTIONS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND IRELAND WHO ARE IN NEED AND IN PARTICULAR AND WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING TO ASSIST SUCH MEMBERS BY ALL OR ANY OF THE FOLLOWING MEANS:(A)BY GRANTING REGULAR BENEFIT PAYMENTS;(B)BY MAKING GRANTS OR GIFTS OR GIVING OTHER ASSISTANCE FOR THE TEMPORARY RELIEF OF HARDSHIP.

Grants received

1 grant · £10,000 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

  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £10,000

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Community Fund £10,0002020-11-30
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.

12 trustees on the board

2.2y median 2y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

  • Neil Peter Barker since 2018
9.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (11)

Portfolio (1)

11
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 12Disability 1The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 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.

Health and social care 12Professional services 11Hospitality 6

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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£1.0m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2023 and 2024
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.

51.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 33.7 in 2020

9 from 9 in 2020
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
1023376
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 27/01/1993AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 09/06/1997AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 02/10/2007AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 19/04/2011AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 27 AUG 2019 as amended on 10 Mar 2020
Companies House
Company number 02783340 · Active
Contact on the register
02070893888 · info@drinkstrust.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
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