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Registered charity (CIO) · North Ascot

The ARK Trust CIO

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £245k (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, Arts/culture/heritage/science and 4 more
Where
Bracknell Forest, West Berkshire, Reading, Slough and more
Website
www.theark.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2003

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£245k£276k
  • 2024£284k£314k
  • 2023£327k£322k
Earlier years
  • 2022£274k£285k
  • 2021£302k£302k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 34% · Government grants 13%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF:(1) (I) FIRSTLY PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES AND/OR LONG TERM HEALTHCONDITIONS; AND(II) SECONDLY CARERS OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES AND/OR LONG TERMHEALTH CONDITIONS; AND(III) THIRDLY YOUNG PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT IN EDUCATION, EMPLOYMENT ORTRAININGWHO ARE RESIDENT IN THE SOUTH EAST OF ENGLAND.(2) SUBJECT TO THE ABOVE, PEOPLE SIMILARLY QUALIFIED WHO ARE RESIDENTOUTSIDE OF THE SOUTH EAST OF ENGLAND BY SUPPORTING THE CHARITABLE WORK OF THE ARK.(3) TO SUPPORT THE COMMUNITY AND VOLUNTARY SECTOR IN THE AREA OF OPERATIONOF THE CHARITY, FOR THE BENEFIT FOR THE PUBLIC AND TO ENSURE THE EQUALITY FOR ALL PEOPLE TOENGAGE IN CITIZENSHIP.

Grants received

8 grants · £232,509 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.

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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.

11 trustees on the board

5.7y median 5y
average tenure
11y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

6.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (11)

1
company-linked trustees

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

Disability 11Education/training 11The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 11

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 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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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£245k latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025
47%
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
1098204
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - ASSOCIATION CONVERSIONDATED 25 AUG 2020
Contact on the register
01344266899 · info@theark.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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