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Registered charity · Essex

The Cirdan Sailing Trust (Incorporating the Faramir Trust) Limited

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £719k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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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
Education/training, Amateur Sport, Environment/conservation/heritage, Recreation
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland
Website
www.cirdantrust.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Cirdan Sailing Trust (Incorporating the Faramir Trust) Limited
Registered
2002

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£719k£998k
  • 2024£567k£618k
  • 2023£600k£567k
Earlier years
  • 2022£507k£483k
  • 2021£434k£417k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ("THE OBJECTS") ARE TO HELP EDUCATE YOUNG PEOPLE THROUGH THEIR LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES SO AS TO DEVELOP THEIR MENTAL PHYSICAL AND SPIRITUAL CAPACITIES BY THE PROVISION OF TRAINING AND INSTRUCTION IN THE ART AND CRAFT OF SAILING AND OTHER LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES SO THAT THEY MAY GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY AND SO THAT THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE MAY BE IMPROVED.

Grants received

15 grants · £708,588 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.

6.4y median 6y
average tenure
12y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

11.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (2)

12
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 12Amateur Sport 11Environment/conservation/heritage 11Arts/culture/heritage/science 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.

Arts and leisure 14Business services 4Property 4

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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£719k 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.

6.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 21.5 in 2021

12 from 9 in 2022
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
1091598
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED ON THE 1ST FEBRUARY 2002.
Companies House
Company number 04365550 · Active
Contact on the register
01621776684 · info@cirdantrust.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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