Registered charity · Guildford
The Matrix Trust
- 8 trustees
- Income £547k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
Also 1 organisation acting as trustee: Kenneth Mead.
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, Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
- Where
- Surrey
- Website
- www.matrixtrust.com (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- The Matrix Trust
- Registered
- 2000
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£547k£606k
- 2024£522k£546k
- 2023£500k£523k
Earlier years
- 2022£430k£399k
- 2021£334k£252k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 4%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
(A) TO ACT AS A RESOURCE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE, UP TO THE AGE OF 25, LIVING IN SURREY AND SURROUNDING AREAS, BY PROVIDING ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE, AND ORGANISING PROGRAMMES OF PHYSICAL, EDUCATIONAL AND OTHER ACTIVITIES AS A MEANS OF:(I) ADVANCING IN LIFE AND HELPING YOUNG PEOPLE BY DEVELOPING THEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS INDEPENDENT, MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS;(II) ADVANCING EDUCATION;(III) RELIEVING UNEMPLOYMENT;(IV) PROVIDING RECREATIONAL AND LEISURE TIME ACTIVITY IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR PEOPLE LIVING IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT WHO HAVE NEED BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES WITH A VIEW TO IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF SUCH PERSONS. B) TO RELIEVE PERSONS WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED OR HARDSHIP AND TO RELIEVE THE DISTRESS CAUSED THEREBY C) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION BY SUCH MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES MAY CONSIDER APPROPRIATE INCLUDING BY MEANS OF ESTABLISHING AND OPERATING ANY EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENT OR ESTABLISHMENTS D) TO PROVIDE FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR YOUNG PERSONS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR SUCH PERSONS E) TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STATEMENT OF BELIEFS APPEARING IN THE SCHEDULE HERETO ATTACHED F) TO PROMOTE AND FULFIL SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES BENEFICIAL TO THE COMMUNITY IN SUCH PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT
Grants received
39 grants · £465,513 total360Giving 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
- Community Foundation for Surrey · £224,270 (26 grants)
- Garfield Weston Foundation · £80,000 (4 grants)
- People's Health Trust · £67,997 (2 grants)
- The Joseph Rank Trust · £30,000
- The National Lottery Community Fund · £29,996 (3 grants)
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
- Simon David Slater Chair since 2014
- Jennifer Margaret Hall since 2022
- Kenneth Mead since 2020
- Lindsay Sarah Jespersen since 2020
- Matt Davis since 2018
- Nigel Charles Comstive Wright since 2025
- Rachel Jane Slough since 2024
- Victoria Jennifer Gomes since 2023
Trustees past 6 years
- Simon David Slater Chair since 2014
- Kenneth Mead since 2020
- Matt Davis since 2018
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (7)
- Simon David Slater Chair since 2014
- Jennifer Margaret Hall since 2022
- Lindsay Sarah Jespersen since 2020
- Matt Davis since 2018
- Nigel Charles Comstive Wright since 2025
- Rachel Jane Slough since 2024
- Victoria Jennifer Gomes since 2023
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
0.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 1.1 in 2021
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1081852
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEM & ARTS 6.4.00 as amended on 25 Jan 2019
- Companies House
- Company number 03977050 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 01483574900 · info@matrixtrust.com
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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