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ST Vincent DE Paul Society (England and Wales)

Registered charity 1053992 Registered since 1996

Operates: Throughout England And Wales, Grenada, Guyana, India, Romania, Sudan, South Sudan, Guernsey, Isle Of Man, Jersey

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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.

13 trustees on the board

3.6y median 4y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

Portfolio (4)

12
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 13The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 13Education/training 3Religious Activities 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 13Other services 4Retail and trade 4

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£16.2m 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.

3.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months

430 from 285 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.
15%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

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.

Related organisations

Connected through a shared trustee

Also active in the same field

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitewww.svp.org.uk
Emailinfo@svp.org.uk
Phone02077033030
AddressSt. Vincent De Paul Society, Allenby House, Rees Way, BRADFORD, West Yorkshire, BD3 0DZ

Finances

£16,235,862 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£11,146,004£10,292,900
2022£13,223,783£12,598,558
2023£14,222,729£15,281,199
2024£15,797,501£17,588,493
2025£16,235,862£18,195,589

What it does

What

General Charitable PurposesThe Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

Who

The General Public/mankind

How

Makes Grants To IndividualsProvides Buildings/facilities/open SpaceProvides ServicesProvides Advocacy/advice/information

Charitable objects

THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND SICKNESS WITHOUT DIFFERENTIATION ON THE GROUNDS OF RACE, COLOUR, CREED, IDEOLOGY OR SEX AND IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT SO AS TO LIMIT THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING, TO BRING SPIRTUAL AND/OR MATERIAL SOLACE TO THE SICK OR INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS DUE TO THEIR SOCIAL, ECONOMIC OR OTHER CIRCUMSTANCES. 2. THE UNDERTAKING IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD OF SUCH OTHER OBJECT OR OBJECTS WHICH ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS THE SOCIETY IN ITS DISCRETION SHALL SEE FIT.

Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 13/03/1996NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 27/11/2015 as amended on 02 Aug 2019

Trustees (13)

13trustees
62median age
3aged 70+

Linked company (Companies House)

ST Vincent DE Paul Society (England & Wales) · 03174679 · Active

PRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of 'Limited' exemption) · incorporated 13/03/1996

6 governing document(s) held from Companies House.

Connected charities (4)

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