The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 30th August 2026

Deptford Challenge Trust Limited

Registered charity 1070483 Registered since 1998

Operates: Lewisham

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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.

9.7y median 11y
average tenure
14y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

21.7y
average years in governance
8
company-linked trustees

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

Arts/culture/heritage/science 8General Charitable Purposes 8Amateur Sport 7Economic/community Development/employment 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 10Construction 7Business services 6

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£1.7m 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.

4.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 13.6 in 2021

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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.

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

Connected through a shared trustee

Also active in the same field

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitewww.deptfordchallengetrust.org.uk
Phone02088508711
Address14th Floor, 33 Cavendish Square, London, W1G 0PW

Finances

£1,712,487 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£321,701£334,205
2022£427,182£807,039
2023£1,160,051£769,823
2024£1,350,448£1,152,515
2025£1,712,487£1,403,728

What it does

What

General Charitable PurposesArts/culture/heritage/scienceAmateur SportEconomic/community Development/employment

Who

Children/young PeopleElderly/old PeoplePeople With DisabilitiesPeople Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial OriginOther Charities Or Voluntary BodiesThe General Public/mankind

How

Makes Grants To Organisations

Charitable objects

A) TO PROMOTE THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE DEPTFORD CITY CHALLENGE AREA IN A COMMON EFFORT TO ADVANCE EDUCATION TRAINING AND SOCIAL WELFARE WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF THE OF THE SAID INHABITANTS. B) IF EFFECT CANNOT BE GIVEN TO THE OBJECTS EXPRESSED IN A) OF THIS CLAUSE, THEN TO PROMOTE SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF LEWISHAM ("THE LEWISHAM AREA OF BENEFIT") AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL DECIDE

Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 23 JUNE 1997, AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS PASSED 1 JULY 1998, 9 DECEMBER 2004 AND 2 OCTOBER 2007

Trustees (8)

8trustees
62median age
3aged 70+

Linked company (Companies House)

Deptford Challenge Trust Limited · 03390541 · Active

PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital) · incorporated 23/06/1997

6 governing document(s) held from Companies House.

Connected charities (2)

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