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Registered charity · Birmingham

Broadening Choices for Older People

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £10m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th 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
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Accommodation/housing
Where
Throughout England
Website
www.bcop.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Broadening Choices for Older People
Registered
1999

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£10m£10.0m
  • 2024£9.0m£8.8m
  • 2023£7.7m£8.1m
Earlier years
  • 2022£7.7m£7.5m
  • 2021£7.7m£7.3m
Charitable objects

THE CHARITY’S OBJECTS ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO THE FOLLOWING FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT:3.1 PROVIDING AND MANAGING ACCOMMODATION, SOCIAL HOUSING AND/OR SUPPORT SERVICES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, SERVICES IN RELATION TO RESIDENTIAL, RESPITE AND OTHER FORMS OF CARE AND PRACTICAL SUPPORT, ANY ASSOCIATED AMENITIES, SERVICES OR ASSISTANCE, IN ALL CASES FOR OLDER PEOPLE IN NECESSITOUS CIRCUMSTANCES;3.2 THE MAKING OF DONATIONS TO ANY TRUST, ORGANISATION OR BODY THE OBJECTS OR PURPOSES OF WHICH ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE; AND3.3 SUCH OTHER OBJECTS AND PURPOSES BEING EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.

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.

10 trustees on the board

2.7y median 2.5y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure
2
trustees past 6 years
5.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

10
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 10The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 10

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

Property 12Health and social care 6Education 2

Gaps to watch

  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

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£10.0m 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.

18.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 25.5 in 2021

238 from 235 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.
49%
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
1074954
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 18 DECEMBER 1998 AS AMENDED 13TH SEPTEMBER 2002 AND 26 OCTOBER 2009. AS AMENDED ON 28 MAR 2018 AS AMENDED ON 28 NOV 2019AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 15 DEC 2019 as amended on 16 Mar 2022
Companies House
Company number 03685650 · Active
Contact on the register
01214597670 · general@bcop.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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