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Registered charity · Plymouth

First Light South West LTD

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £5.5m (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
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty and 1 more
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.firstlight.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
First Light South West LTD
Registered
2002

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£5.5m£5.5m
  • 2024£5.3m£5.6m
  • 2023£4.8m£4.6m
Earlier years
  • 2022£4.2m£3.5m
  • 2021£3.4m£2.7m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 94%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE THE BENEFIT FOR THOSE LIVING, WORKING AND VISITING ENGLAND AND WALES, BY ASSOCIATING TOGETHER THE INHABITANTS, LOCAL AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY AND COMMUNITY ORGANISATIONS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO IMPROVE THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE, PARTICULARLY THOSE AFFECTED BY INTERPERSONAL VIOLENCE AND ABUSE, THROUGH THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF GOOD HEALTH AND WELL BEING.

Grants received

39 grants · £2,187,738 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.

9 trustees on the board

3.8y median 4y
average tenure
10y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

8
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 9The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 9

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Business services 8Finance 4Professional services 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£5.5m latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

1.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 2.8 in 2021

129 from 66 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
1090457
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 26 SEP 1997AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 12 OCT 2000AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 29 JAN 2002AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 29 APR 2010AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 03 APR 2017 as amended on 12 Jan 2023 as amended on 03 Jan 2023
Companies House
Company number 03440794 · Active
Contact on the register
03458 121212 · info@firstlight.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
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