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Registered charity · Shepton Mallet

Somerset Community Foundation

Somerset Community Foundation is a registered charity (number 1094446) based in Shepton Mallet, governed by 13 trustees. Latest income £5.6m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 25th October 2026.

  • 13 trustees
  • Income £5.6m (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
Education/training, Disability, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Arts/culture/heritage/science and 3 more
Where
Somerset
Website
www.somersetcf.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Somerset Community Foundation
Registered
2002

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£5.6m£5.1m
  • 2024£3.9m£4.9m
  • 2023£5.8m£5.8m
Earlier years
  • 2022£4.8m£2.7m
  • 2021£4.1m£4.3m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 37%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

1. THE PROMOTION OF ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN THE AREA SERVED BY SOMERSET COUNTY COUNCIL ON THE DATE OF INCORPORATION OF THE COMPANY AND IN PARTICULAR THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION.2. OTHER EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND ELSEWHERE WHICH ARE IN THE OPINION OF THE DIRECTORS BENEFICIAL TO THE COMMUNITY WITH A PREFERENCE FOR THOSE IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT.

Grants received

22 grants · £802,861 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.

13 trustees on the board

2.8y median 2y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (3)

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 13Disability 12The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 12Economic/community Development/employment 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.

Other services 9Education 5Health and social care 3

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£5.6m 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.

1.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 0.5 in 2021

18 from 12 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
1094446
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 10 SEPTEMBER 2002AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 27 OCTOBER 2002AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 04 JAN 2017AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 04 DEC 2017AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 16 MAR 2021
Companies House
Company number 04530979 · Active
Contact on the register
01749344949 · info@somersetcf.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 25th October 2026
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