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Registered charity · South Yorkshire

The Carr Fenton Foundation

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £14m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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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
Education/training, Disability
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.thecarrfentonfoundation.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Carr Fenton Foundation
Registered
2001

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£14m£13m
  • 2024£13m£12m
  • 2023£11m£10m
Earlier years
  • 2022£8.9m£9.9m
  • 2021£9.1m£8.8m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 31% · Government grants 58%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY (OBJECTS) ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT: • TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING (INCLUDING PHYSICAL EDUCATION); AND • TO PROMOTE THE HEALTH AND CARE (INCLUDING PROMOTING MENTAL HEALTH, SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT AND OVERALL WELLBEING); OF DEAF AND HEARING IMPAIRED CHILDREN AND ADULTS AND THOSE WITH COMMUNICATION AND/OR LEARNING DIFFICULTIES; • TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC GENERALLY ON DEAFNESS, HEARING IMPAIRMENTS, COMMUNICATION DISORDERS AND LEARNING DIFFICULTIES, TO HELP WORK TOWARDS THE ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION AND TO PROMOTE EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE DEAF, HEARING IMPAIRED OR HAVE COMMUNICATION DISORDERS AND/ OR LEARNING DIFFICULTIES AND TO PROMOTE THE UNDERSTANDING OF ISSUES OF DISCRIMINATION AND INEQUALITY; •TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION AND CARE OF CHILDREN BELOW COMPULSORY SCHOOL AGE; BY THE PROVISION (AND WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING) OF A SCHOOL OR SCHOOLS, COLLEGE OR COLLEGES, NURSERY OR NURSERIES OR SUCH OTHER TRAINING OR CARE FACILITIES AND SERVICES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY DETERMINE IN FURTHERANCE OF THE OBJECTS.

Grants received

11 grants · £188,363 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

  • Sport England £2,9572020-07-02
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £10,0002020-05-22
  • Henry Smith Foundation £2,5002020-03-05
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £9,6782019-08-01
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £100,0002019-02-08
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.

3.8y median 2.5y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

Portfolio (2)

6
company-linked trustees

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

Disability 8Education/training 8Amateur Sport 1General 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.

Education 7Business services 1Tech and media 1

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£14.4m 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.

4.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 6.0 in 2021

324 from 251 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.
89%
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
1088060
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 09 NOV 2000AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 09 NOV 2000AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 24 MAY 2001AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 16 NOV 2022 as amended on 06 Mar 2026 as amended on 19 Mar 2026 as amended on 18 Oct 2022
Companies House
Company number 04105045 · Active
Contact on the register
01302 386708 · phil.carter@thecarrfentonfoundation.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
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