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Registered charity · Reading

Reading Community Welfare Rights Unit

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £172k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 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
General Charitable Purposes, Disability, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Where
Reading, West Berkshire, Wokingham
Website
readingspecialist.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Reading Community Welfare Rights Unit
Registered
1999

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£172k£182k
  • 2024£178k£178k
  • 2023£140k£132k
Earlier years
  • 2022£136k£139k
  • 2021£130k£120k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 50%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

1) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, PROTECTION OF HEALTH AND RELIEF OF POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS2) THE PROMOTION OF CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE POPULATION OF GREATER READING

Grants received

5 grants · £721,308 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

  • The National Lottery Community Fund £20,0002025-11-20
  • Henry Smith Foundation £1,7402025-03-11
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £344,2242024-08-14
  • Henry Smith Foundation £105,4002022-12-06
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £249,9442019-07-01
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.

9 trustees on the board

10y median 12y
average tenure
20y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

11y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

Portfolio (3)

9
company-linked trustees

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

Disability 9General Charitable Purposes 9The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 9

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 9Arts and leisure 1Finance 1

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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£172k latest income

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1074557
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 3 SEPTEMBER 1998 as amended on 11 Feb 2022 as amended on 20 Oct 2023
Companies House
Company number 03626105 · Active
Contact on the register
01189551070 · advisor@readingspecialist.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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