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Registered charity · London

The Spires Centre

The relief of persons in need by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage, in particular in South London and the surrounding area, by providing counselling, information, advice, food, clothing and other...

  • 7 trustees
  • Income £802k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Economic/community Development/employment
Where
Lambeth, Bromley, Croydon, Greenwich and more
Website
www.spires.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Spires Centre
Registered
1999

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£802k£633k
  • 2024£624k£597k
  • 2023£580k£574k
Earlier years
  • 2022£457k£553k
  • 2021£609k£584k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 5% · Government grants 8%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

The relief of persons in need by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage, in particular in South London and the surrounding area, by providing counselling, information, advice, food, clothing and other items through outreach and by any other charitable means.

Grants received

38 grants · £3,298,404 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

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.

7 trustees on the board

2.6y median 2y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
9.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (5)

Portfolio (2)

7
company-linked trustees

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

Economic/community Development/employment 7Education/training 7The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 6General Charitable Purposes 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.

Health and social care 9Property 4Other services 2

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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£624k latest income · income exceeded spending in 2023 and 2024
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.

5.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 2.2 in 2020

11 from 13 in 2020
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
1076888
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 9TH JUNE 1999 AS AMENDED 12TH JULY 2000AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 26 APR 2017 as amended on 04 Feb 2025
Companies House
Company number 03785409 · Active
Contact on the register
02086960943 · info@spires.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
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