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Registered charity · Gloucestershire

The Nelson Trust

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £13m (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 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, Accommodation/housing
Where
Gloucestershire, Somerset, Wiltshire, Bristol City and more
Website
www.nelsontrust.com (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Nelson Trust
Registered
1996

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£13m£11m
  • 2024£8.4m£8.6m
  • 2023£8.9m£8.0m
Earlier years
  • 2022£7.2m£6.1m
  • 2021£5.0m£4.5m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 46% · Government grants 14%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS (“THE OBJECTS”) ARE:3.1.1 TO RELIEVE AND ASSIST IN THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND DISTRESS AMONGST PERSONS WHOHAVE, OR ARE RECOVERING FROM DRUG, ALCOHOL AND OTHER ADDICTIONS BY THE PROVISION OFTREATMENT, REHABILITATION PROGRAMMES AND ACCOMMODATION;3.1.2 TO PROVIDE EDUCATION AND INFORMATION SERVICES IN ORDER TO TRY TO PREVENT PERSONSBECOMING ADDICTED TO DRUG ALCOHOL OR OTHER SUBSTANCES;3.1.3 TO PROVIDE SUPPORT FOR THE FAMILIES OF PERSONS WHO ARE ADDICTED TO DRUG ALCOHOL ANDOTHER SUBSTANCES, INCLUDING ADVICE ASSISTANCE AND SUPPORT SERVICES FOR THE FAMILIESOF SUCH PERSONS; AND3.1.4 TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PREVENTING PEOPLE (IN PARTICULARBUT NOT LIMITED TO WOMEN WHO ARE VULNERABLE) FROM BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED BYRELIEVING THE NEEDS OF SUCH PEOPLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AND ASSISTING THEMTO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY BY ALL MEANS THAT ARE CHARITABLE IN LAW.3.2 FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS ARTICLE 3, “‘SOCIALLY EXCLUDED’” MEANS BEING EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY,OR PARTS OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF ONE OF MORE OF THE FOLLOWING FACTORS: SUBSTANCE ABUSE ORDEPENDENCY INCLUDING ALCOHOL AND DRUGS; DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUNDS OF SEX, RACE,DISABILITY, ETHNIC ORIGIN, RELIGION, BELIEF, CREED, SEXUAL ORIENTATION OR GENDER RE-ASSIGNMENT;UNEMPLOYMENT; FINANCIAL HARDSHIP; POOR EDUCATIONAL OR SKILLS ATTAINMENT; RELATIONSHIP ANDFAMILY BREAKDOWN; POOR HOUSING (THAT IS HOUSING THAT DOES NOT MEET BASIC HABITABLESTANDARDS); CRIME (EITHER AS A VICTIM OF CRIME OR AS AN OFFENDER REHABILITATING INTO SOCIETY).3.3 FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS ARTICLE 3, “VULNERABLE” MEANS WOMEN WHO HAVE BEEN (OR WHO ARE ATRISK OF BEING) SEXUALLY EXPLOITED OR PHYSICALLY, SEXUALLY, EMOTIONALLY OR PSYCHOLOGICALLYABUSED, OR WOMEN WHO HAVE EXPERIENCED (OR WHO ARE AT RISK OF EXPERIENCING)HOMELESSNESS, ILL HEALTH (MENTAL OR PHYSICAL) OR SUBSTANCE MISUSE PROBLEMS.

Grants received

75 grants · £7,277,503 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.

Top funders

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.

8 trustees on the board

3.6y median 2.5y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

10.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

Portfolio (2)

7
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 8The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 8Accommodation/housing 6General Charitable Purposes 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 12Education 1Other 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£13.5m latest income
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.

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

273 from 144 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.
60%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1056672
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 13 JUNE 1996 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS DATED 26 MARCH 2003, 15 MARCH 2007 AND 16 JULY 2008. as amended on 20 Jan 2021
Companies House
Company number 03211815 · Active
Contact on the register
01453885633 · office@nelsontrust.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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