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First Fruit

First Fruit is a registered charity (number 1066749) based in London, governed by 6 trustees and chaired by Peter Sell. Latest income £2.0m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 18th October 2026.

  • 6 trustees
  • Income £2.0m (2025)
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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
Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Accommodation/housing, Religious Activities and 1 more
Where
Throughout London
Website
www.firstfruit.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
First Fruit
Registered
1997

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£2.0m£1.5m
  • 2024£1.7m£1.2m
  • 2023£1.3m£1.1m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.6m£950k
  • 2021£1.1m£893k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 0%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

(A) THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH AND IN PARTICULAR:- (1) THE TEACHING AND PRACTICE OF AND TRAINING IN EVANGELISM (2) THE HARVESTING OF THE POTENTIAL SKILLS OF PEOPLE FOR SERVICE TO OTHERS ACCORDING TO BIBLICAL PRINCIPLES IN EACH CASE IN DEMONSTRATION OF THE CHURCH'S MISSION IN THE WORLD AND ENCOURAGING THE CHURCHES TO WORK TOGETHER TO THESE ENDS (B) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY TRAINING OF PEOPLE IN NEEDY CIRCUMSTANCES IN EMPLOYMENT AND BUSINESS SKILLS (C) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY ASSISTANCE TO AND TRAINING OF PEOPLE IN NEEDY CIRCUMSTANCES WITH A VIEW TO THEIR DEVELOPING SKILLS FOR COPING WITH LIFE AND EMPLOYMENT.

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.

6 trustees on the board

9y median 8.5y
average tenure
16y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

21.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

6
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 6Education/training 6The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 6

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

Health and social care 15Other services 5Business services 1

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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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£2.0m 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.

9.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 17.0 in 2021

15 from 13 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.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1066749
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED ON 2ND DECEMBER 1997
Companies House
Company number 03477267 · Active
Contact on the register
02085191454 · info@firstfruit.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 18th October 2026
Labels
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