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Seashell Trust

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £27m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 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, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability, Accommodation/housing and 1 more
Where
Stockport
Website
www.seashelltrust.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Seashell Trust
Registered
2002

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£27m£27m
  • 2024£45m£27m
  • 2023£27m£23m
Earlier years
  • 2022£20m£19m
  • 2021£37m£18m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 83%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION (INCLUDING SOCIAL AND PHYSICAL TRAINING) AND/OR WELFARE OF CHILDREN AND ADULTS WHO, THROUGH ANY ONE OR MORE FORMS OF DISABILITY, REQUIRE SPECIAL PROVISION FOR THEIR NEEDS ("BENEFICIARIES"), AND IN FURTHERANCE OF THOSE OBJECTS TO PROVIDE SUITABLE FACILITIES FOR ASSESSMENT, NURSERY CARE, EDUCATION, TRAINING, WORK EXPERIENCE, RECREATION, CARE, RESIDENTIAL ACCOMMODATION AND SUPPORT FOR BENEFICIARIES.

Grants received

32 grants · £3,547,066 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

  • Department for Education · £1,429,258 (13 grants)
  • Garfield Weston Foundation · £1,000,000 (2 grants)
  • Sport England · £439,853 (4 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £381,900 (2 grants)
  • Department of Health and Social Care · £106,146

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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.

10 trustees on the board

3.7y median 4y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

9.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

10
company-linked trustees

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

Disability 10Education/training 10The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 10

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 9Arts and leisure 2Finance 2

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£26.7m latest income
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.

0.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 1.7 in 2021

667 from 563 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
1092655
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 15/05/2001AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 12/11/2001AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 07/06/2002AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 14/05/2007AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 26/08/2008AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 24/10/2011 as amended on 02 May 2023
Companies House
Company number 04216714 · Active
Contact on the register
01616100100 · info@seashelltrust.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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