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Registered charity · Wadebridge

The Barnes Nichols Trust

  • 7 trustees
  • Income £10k (2025)

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
General Charitable Purposes, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Where
Cornwall
Registered
1993

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£10k£15k
  • 2024£8k£6k
  • 2023£9k£6k
Earlier years
  • 2022£5k£5k
  • 2021£6k£5k
Charitable objects

TO ASSIST IN THE SAVING OF LIVES AT SEA BY PROVIDING ADDITIONAL EQUIPMENT AND OTHER CHARITABLE AIDS TO THE ENROLLED PERSONNEL OF THE PADSTOW LIFEBOAT STATION AND TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF THE PRESENT CREW AND FORMER PERSONNEL OF THE PADSTOW LIFEBOAT AND OTHER ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT STATIONS AND OF THE INHABITANTS OF PADSTOW WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED HARDSHIP AND DISTRESS.

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.

5.3y median 5y
average tenure
10y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

2.2y
average years in governance
0
company-linked trustees

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

General Charitable Purposes 7The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 7

Gaps to watch

  • No commercial or business experience on the board
  • Narrow spread of causes across the board
  • Mostly recent joiners - limited long-term continuity

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£10k latest income

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1026942
Status
Registered
Governing document
TRUST DEED DATED 7 APRIL 1993 AS AMENDED ON 22 SEPTEMBER 1997 BY RESOLUTION PASSED UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 74(2)(D)(I) OF THE CHARITIES ACT 1993, AND ON 22 NOVEMBER 2004 BY RESOLUTION PASSED UNDER PROVISIONS OF S.74(2)(C) OF CA 1993
Contact on the register
01208816483
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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