Registered charity · Norwich

The Geoffrey Watling Charity

6 trustees
Income £792k (2025)

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: General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability and 3 more
Where: Norfolk, Suffolk
Website: www.geoffreywatling.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered: 1993

Income and spending

YearIncomeSpending
2025£792k£904k
2024£806k£874k
2023£716k£727k

Earlier years

2022£748k£792k
2021£723k£663k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSES.

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.

6 trustees on the board

6.8y median 7y

average tenure

12y

longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

5.9y

average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

company-linked trustees

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

Education/training 6General Charitable Purposes 6The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 6

Gaps to watch

No commercial or business experience on the board
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 5 years.

2021

2022

2023

2024

2025

incomespending£792k latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

12.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 120.0 in 2021

3 from 3 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: 1025258
Status: Registered
Governing document: CHARITABLE SETTLEMENT DATED 4 AUGUST 1993 AND DEED OF AMENDMENT DATED 30 AUGUST 2005, ORDER OF THE CHARITY COMMISSIONERS DATED 17 AUGUST 2005 ASAMENDED BY DEED DATED23 JUNE 2014.
Contact on the register: 01603766736 · enquiries@geoffreywatling.org.uk
Edition: Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels: Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.

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