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Registered charity · Portsmouth

John Pounds Community Trust Limited

  • 4 trustees
  • Income £813k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 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, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Amateur Sport
Where
Portsmouth City
Website
www.johnpoundscentre.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
John Pounds' Community Trust LTD
Registered
2003

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£813k£958k
  • 2024£799k£798k
  • 2023£651k£765k
Earlier years
  • 2022£698k£691k
  • 2021£786k£640k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 22%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

(1) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AMONG PERSONS OF 25 YEARS OR UNDER AND SECONDARY TO THAT (2) TO HELP EDUCATE YOUNG PEOPLE THROUGH THEIR LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES SO AS TO DEVELOP THEIR PHYSICAL, MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL CAPACITIES THAT THEY MAY GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY AND THAT THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE MAY BE IMPROVED (3) TO PROMOTE THE BENEFIT OF THE PEOPLE OF PORTSMOUTH, PARTICULARLY IN THE AREA KNOWN AS PORTSEA, IN CO-OPERATION WITH THE RESIDENTS OF THE AREA, THE LOCAL AUTHORITY AND VOLUNTARY AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS, IN A COMMON EFFORT TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES FOR THE SOCIAL RECREATIONAL AND CREATIVE LEISURE TIME OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE SAID RESIDENTS WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR LIFE (4) TO ESTABLISH, MAINTAIN AND MANAGE THE JOHN POUNDS COMMUNITY FACILITY IN LIAISON WITH VOLUNTARY AND STATUTORY BODIES AND TO PROMOTE COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT IN SUCH MANAGEMENT

Grants received

18 grants · £1,388,641 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

  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £772,645 (10 grants)
  • Power to Change Trust · £345,920 (3 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £114,076 (2 grants)
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £94,000
  • The Tudor Trust · £60,000

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £94,0002024-01-23
  • Power to Change Trust £10,0002022-12-12
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £9,8002022-09-02
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £9,6002021-07-16
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £69,2002020-10-14
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.

4 trustees on the board

14.2y median 11.5y
average tenure
23y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

19.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (3)

Portfolio (1)

4
company-linked trustees

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

Arts/culture/heritage/science 4Education/training 4Amateur Sport 3Environment/conservation/heritage 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.

Education 5Arts and leisure 4Property 3

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£813k 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.

1.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 14.6 in 2021

13 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.
122 days
Latest accounts filed after the due dateiFiled after the due dateDate the accounts were received minus the reporting due date, latest filed cycle, Charity Commission register.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1100911
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 6 FEBRUARY 2003 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION 13 JULY 2003
Companies House
Company number 04740185 · Active
Contact on the register
02392892010 · reception@johnpoundscentre.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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