The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 13th September 2026

First Step Trust

Registered charity 1077959 Registered since 1999

Operates: Bexley, Greenwich, Lambeth, Bury, Salford City, St Helens

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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.

5 trustees on the board

1.8y median 2y
average tenure
3y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
12.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (5)

5
company-linked trustees

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

Disability 5Education/training 5General Charitable Purposes 5

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 6Finance 2Professional 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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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£1.4m latest income
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.

0.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 4.9 in 2021

23 from 19 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.

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.

Also active in the same field

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitewww.firststeptrust.org.uk
Emailmainoffice@firststeptrust.org.uk
Phone02088557386
AddressUNIT 9 KINGSIDE BUSINESS PARK, RUSTON ROAD, LONDON, SE18 5BX

Finances

£1,370,300 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£1,331,001£1,477,136
2022£1,492,237£1,186,532
2023£1,577,678£1,224,755
2024£1,407,878£1,278,337
2025£1,370,300£1,433,904

What it does

What

General Charitable PurposesEducation/trainingDisabilityThe Prevention Or Relief Of PovertyEconomic/community Development/employment

Who

People With Disabilities

How

Provides Services

Charitable objects

TO SUPPORT OR PROMOTE SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINE BUT IN PARTICULAR TO ASSIST THOSE IN THE COMMUNITY WITH MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS BY THE APPLICATION OF THE TRUST PRINCIPLES TO THE PROVISION OF SERVICES FOR SUCH PEOPLE.

Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 10/03/1999AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 08/12/2011

Trustees (5)

5trustees
60median age
1aged 70+

Linked company (Companies House)

First Step Trust · 03730562 · Active

PRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of 'Limited' exemption) · incorporated 10/03/1999

2 governing document(s) held from Companies House.

Connected charities (0)

No charities share a trustee (from current data).

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