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Registered charity · Bristol

Action With Communities in Rural England (Acre)

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £5.0m (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
Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Environment/conservation/heritage, Economic/community Development/employment
Where
Throughout England
Website
www.acre.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Action With Communities in Rural England
Registered
1997

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£5.0m£5.1m
  • 2024£4.7m£4.5m
  • 2023£2.0m£2.4m
Earlier years
  • 2022£2.1m£2.9m
  • 2021£2.1m£3.3m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts under 1% · Government grants 94%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE TO IMPROVE THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF PEOPLE AND COMMUNITIES IN RURAL AREAS IN ENGLAND AND WALES.

Grants received

14 grants · £14,189,142 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

  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £595,5962023-07-18
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £2,051,8842023-07-18
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £1,712,0002022-03-31
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £1,712,0002022-03-31
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £1,712,0002022-03-31
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.

10 trustees on the board

2.6y median 2y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

13.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

Portfolio (4)

10
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 10The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 9Environment/conservation/heritage 8Economic/community Development/employment 1General Charitable Purposes 1The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 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 16Health and social care 4Arts and leisure 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£5.0m 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.

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

5 from 3 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.
94%
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
1061568
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 19/03/1997AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 20/11/1997AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 30/01/2001AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 13/11/2001AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 17/11/2004AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 16/11/2005AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 15/11/2006AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 15/11/2007AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 13/11/2008NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 18/06/2014 as amended on 27 Nov 2018
Companies House
Company number 03336101 · Active
Contact on the register
01285653477 · contact@acre.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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