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Registered charity · Hertfordshire

Pohwer

4. Objects4.1 The Charity’s Objects are, for the public benefit in the United Kingdom:(a) To relieve people in need; (b) To promote social inclusion by preventing people from becoming socially excluded and relieving the needs of those who are...

  • 7 trustees
  • Income £16m (2025)

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
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Economic/community Development/employment and 1 more
Where
Throughout England, Scotland
Website
www.pohwer.net (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Pohwer
Registered
1997

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£16m£16m
  • 2024£16m£16m
  • 2023£17m£17m
Earlier years
  • 2022£16m£14m
  • 2021£16m£15m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 90% · Government grants 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

4. Objects4.1 The Charity’s Objects are, for the public benefit in the United Kingdom:(a) To relieve people in need; (b) To promote social inclusion by preventing people from becoming socially excluded and relieving the needs of those who are social excluded; and(c) To promote human rights by raising awareness of human rights,in particular but without limitation by providing advocacy, information, advice and guidance.4.2 In these Objects, “social excluded” means being excluded from society or parts of society because of one or more of the following factors: youth or old age, ill health (physical or mental), disability, requiring care, substance abuse or dependency; financial hardship, discrimination on the grounds of sex, race, disability, ethnic origin, religion, belief, creed, sexual orientation or gender re-assignment, poor educational or skill attainment or relationship or family breakdown; and “human rights” is as set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and subsequent United Nations conventions and declarations.”Nothing in the Articles shall authorise an application of the property of the Charity for the purposes which are not charitable in accordance with section 7 of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005 and section 2 of the Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2008.

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
8.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

Portfolio (1)

7
company-linked trustees

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

Disability 7The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 7The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 6General Charitable Purposes 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 7Health and social care 4Property 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£16.0m latest income · income exceeded spending 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.

3.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 2.0 in 2021

429 from 403 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.
91%
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
1061543
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 31/08/1996AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 26/09/2001AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 06/09/2002AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 03/10/2003AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 04/11/2010AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 26/08/2011 AS AMENDED ON 03 AUG 2015AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 22 NOV 2018 as amended on 01 Dec 2019 as amended on 26 Oct 2022 as amended on 26 Oct 2022
Companies House
Company number 03323040 · Active
Contact on the register
03004562370 · pohwer@pohwer.net
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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