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Registered charity · York

The Wilberforce Trust

The Wilberforce Trust is a registered charity (number 1087065) based in York, governed by 9 trustees and chaired by Colin Aspinall since 2016. Latest income £5.4m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 18th October 2026.

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £5.4m (2025)
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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, Disability, Accommodation/housing and 1 more
Where
North Yorkshire, City Of York
Website
www.wilberforcetrust.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Wilberforce Trust
Registered
2001

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£5.4m£4.9m
  • 2024£5.1m£4.6m
  • 2023£4.4m£3.9m
Earlier years
  • 2022£3.9m£3.4m
  • 2021£4.1m£3.2m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 95%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

A) THE PROVISION OF RESIDENTIAL DAY CARE TRAINING AND OTHER FACILITIES AND SERVICES TO RELIEVE THE DISABILITIES OF PERSONS WITH VISUAL IMPAIRMENTS WHO MAY HAVE PHYSICAL ILLNESSES OR ANY OTHER PHYSICAL DISORDER OR DISABILITY OF MIND ANDB) SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF DISABLED PERSONS IN YORKSHIRE OR ELSEWHERE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE

Grants received

8 grants · £142,089 total

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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

3y median 2y
average tenure
10y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

Portfolio (1)

9
company-linked trustees

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

Education/training 9General Charitable Purposes 9Disability 8Accommodation/housing 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.

Hospitality 9Property 8Construction 7

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.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£5.4m 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.

10.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 8.5 in 2021

130 from 115 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.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1087065
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCATION INCORPORATED 4 JUNE 2001 (CHARITY 220968 IS LINKED BY VIRTUE OF SECTION 96 (5) DIRECTION. AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION 5 MARCH 2013 as amended on 15 Dec 2020
Companies House
Company number 04228432 · Active
Contact on the register
01904760037 · ENQUIRY@WILBERFORCETRUST.ORG.UK
Edition
Register edition compiled 18th October 2026
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