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Registered charity · Northamptonshire

Serve

  • 5 trustees
  • Income £1.4m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources

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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
Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability
Where
Central Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire, Bedford
Website
www.serve.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Serve
Registered
1995

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.4m£1.6m
  • 2024£1.6m£1.6m
  • 2023£1.2m£1.3m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.1m£1.0m
  • 2021£1.6m£1.0m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 17% · Government grants 3%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY, IN PARTICULAR THE AGED AND DISABLED MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY, IN RUSHDEN AND IN THE COUNTIES OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE AND BEDFORDSHIRE, AND IN PARTICULAR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE FURTHERANCE OF HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, DISTRESS AND SICKNESS

Grants received

32 grants · £421,564 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.

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Most recent

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.

5 trustees on the board

4.2y median 2y
average tenure
10y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

6.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (4)

Portfolio (1)

4
company-linked trustees

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

Disability 5Education/training 5The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 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.

Health and social care 4Other services 1

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£1.4m 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.

4.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 9.6 in 2021

73 from 59 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.
20%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.
160 days
Latest accounts filed after the due dateiFiled after the due dateDate the accounts were received minus the reporting due date, latest filed cycle, Charity Commission register.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1043321
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 25 JULY 1994 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION 29 APRIL 2009AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 11 OCT 2017 as amended on 20 Sep 2022
Companies House
Company number 02951827 · Active
Contact on the register
01933315555 · info@serve.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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