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Registered charity · Essex

Via Residential Ltd

  • 2 trustees
  • Income £1.9m (2025)
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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
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability
Where
Essex
Website
www.wdp.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
VIA Residential LTD
Registered
1996

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.9m£2.1m
  • 2024£1.7m£2.0m
  • 2023£1.4m£1.8m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.3m£1.5m
  • 2021£705k£973k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2024: Government contracts 26%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

(1)TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE DANGERS ARISING FROM THE HABITUAL OR OCCASIONAL CONSUMPTION OF NARCOTIC, STIMULANT AND HALLUCINOGENIC DRUGS OR SIMILAR SUBSTANCES. (11)TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TRAINING AMONG PERSONS WHO ARE IN THE FIELD OF DRUG MISUSE. (111)TO RELIEVE THE POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS OF PERSONS RESULTING FROM THE MISUSE OF DRUGS, (1V)TO PROMOTE EITHER ALONE OR WITH OTHERS, RESEARCH INTO DRUG MISUSE AND TO PUBLISH THE RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH.

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.

2 trustees on the board

1y median 1y
average tenure
1y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
14.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (2)

1
company-linked trustees

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

Disability 2The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 2

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 5Education 1Property 1

Gaps to watch

  • Small board - little cover if a trustee leaves

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£1.9m 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.

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

21 from 19 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
1055486
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 13/05/1996NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 18/12/2012 as amended on 05 Jun 2023
Companies House
Company number 03197716 · Active
Contact on the register
02074213100 · enquiries@wdp.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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