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Registered charity · Bedford

Bedfordshire Rural Communities Charity

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £2.3m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th 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
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Disability, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty and 5 more
Where
Central Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire and more
Website
bedsrcc.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Bedfordshire Rural Communities Charity
Registered
1997

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£2.3m£2.4m
  • 2024£2.4m£2.6m
  • 2023£3.5m£2.8m
Earlier years
  • 2022£2.9m£2.7m
  • 2021£2.3m£2.3m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 41% · Government grants 9%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY PRIMARILY IN THE HISTORIC COUNTY OF BEDFORDSHIRE ("THE AREA OF BENEFIT"), AND IN PARTICULAR, THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE PROTECTION OF HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, DISTRESS AND SICKNESS.IN FURTHERANCE OF THAT PURPOSE, BUT NOT OTHERWISE, TO PROMOTE AND ORGANISE CO-OPERATION IN THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THE SAME AND TO THAT END TO BRING TOGETHER REPRESENTATIVES OF THE VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS AND STATUTORY AUTHORITIES WITHIN THE AREA OF BENEFIT.

Grants received

27 grants · £3,107,968 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

  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £1,886,500 (3 grants)
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £872,429 (5 grants)
  • Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation · £119,781 (7 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £116,868 (4 grants)
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · £65,000 (5 grants)

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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.

11 trustees on the board

2y median 1y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (1)

10
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 11Disability 10Education/training 10Recreation 1Religious 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.

Other services 11Business services 3Education 2

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£2.3m 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.

5.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 3.2 in 2021

86 from 86 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.
50%
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
1061538
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED: 29 NOVEMBER 1996AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 11 DEC 2015 as amended on 22 Jun 2023 as amended on 30 Apr 2026
Companies House
Company number 03327628 · Active
Contact on the register
01234834931 · info@bedsrcc.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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