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Registered charity · Colchester

The Next Chapter (East of England)

  • 7 trustees
  • Income £2.9m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 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
Accommodation/housing, Other Charitable Purposes
Where
Essex
Website
www.thenextchapter.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Next Chapter (East of England)
Registered
1996

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£2.9m£3.2m
  • 2024£2.6m£2.8m
  • 2023£2.6m£2.3m
Earlier years
  • 2022£2.2m£2.0m
  • 2021£2.5m£1.9m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 37% · Government grants 38%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PROVIDE FOR THE RELIEF OF NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS AMONG ADULTS, PARTICULARLY BUT NOT LIMITED TO WOMEN, AND CHILDREN WHO HAVE SUFFERED OR WHO ARE IN FEAR OF SUFFERING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; AND TO UNDERTAKE RESEARCH AND PROMOTE EDUCATION INTO THE CAUSES OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND TO DISSEMINATE THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH.

Grants received

21 grants · £1,095,519 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.

7 trustees on the board

2y median 2y
average tenure
4y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

7
company-linked trustees

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

Accommodation/housing 7Other Charitable Purposes 7

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Hospitality 8Education 1Professional services 1

Gaps to watch

  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

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£2.9m 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.

2.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 3.1 in 2021

77 from 56 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.
75%
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
1058295
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED ON 13TH JUNE 1988 AND AMENDED 3 FEBRUARY 1998 AND 28TH JULY 2001.AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 25 FEB 2016 AS AMENDED ON 18 DEC 2018AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 22 MAR 2019
Companies House
Company number 02266883 · Active
Contact on the register
01206500585 · info@thenextchapter.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
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