Registered charity · Surrey
Surrey Welfare Rights Unit
Objects4. The charity’s objects (‘Objects’) are specifically: to promote any charitable purpose for the public benefit by the advancement of education, the protection and preservation of health and the relief of poverty, sickness and distress in...
- 8 trustees
- Income £357k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources
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, Disability, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
- Where
- Hampshire, Surrey, West Sussex
- Website
- www.swru.org (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Surrey Welfare Rights Unit
- Registered
- 1997
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£357k£306k
- 2024£293k£247k
- 2023£245k£230k
Earlier years
- 2022£196k£211k
- 2021£206k£202k
Charitable objects
Objects4. The charity’s objects (‘Objects’) are specifically: to promote any charitable purpose for the public benefit by the advancement of education, the protection and preservation of health and the relief of poverty, sickness and distress in particular, but without limitation, for the benefit of the community in Surrey and surrounding areas.
Board analysis for researchers
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
- Jane Vivien Bourgeois Chair
- Anne Mary Pirie since 2018
- Jan-Pieter Oosterom since 2023
- Kamran Ilyas since 2026
- Keith O'Neill since 2022
- Melanie Bussicott since 2024
- Patricia Louise Fisher since 2023
- Roger Stewart Hurcombe since 2013
Trustees past 6 years
- Anne Mary Pirie since 2018
- Roger Stewart Hurcombe since 2013
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (8)
- Jane Vivien Bourgeois Chair
- Anne Mary Pirie since 2018
- Jan-Pieter Oosterom since 2023
- Kamran Ilyas since 2026
- Keith O'Neill since 2022
- Melanie Bussicott since 2024
- Patricia Louise Fisher since 2023
- Roger Stewart Hurcombe since 2013
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
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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Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1062826
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED ON 18 MARCH 1997 as amended on 24 Nov 1999 as amended on 14 Oct 2005 as amended on 13 Dec 2010 as amended on 18 Feb 2019 as amended on 01 Aug 2019 as amended on 24 Sep 2019 as amended on 22 Jul 2024 as amended on 22 Jul 2024
- Companies House
- Company number 03335128 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 01483492929 · bureau@swru.org
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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