Registered charity · Gloucester
Fair Shares Gloucestershire
- 7 trustees
- Income £250k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 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
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Economic/community Development/employment
- Where
- Gloucestershire, South Gloucestershire
- Website
- www.fairshares.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Fair Shares Gloucestershire
- Registered
- 2005
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£250k£250k
- 2024£242k£216k
- 2023£250k£230k
Earlier years
- 2022£231k£224k
- 2021£246k£211k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 15%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
(I) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS FOR THE PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE;(II) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF THE COMMUNITY BY MEANS OF ENCOURAGING AND PROMOTING THE PRACTICE OF 'FAIR SHARES' WITHIN THE UNITED KINGDOM, PARTICULARLY FOR THOSE PERSONS WHO ARE DISADVANTAGED AND VULNERABLE, SUCH AS YOUNG PERSONS, THE AGED AND THE UNEMPLOYED, AND WHO ARE IN NEED OF SUCH COMMUNITY INITIATIVES AND SUPPORT..
Grants received
37 grants · £1,395,275 total360Giving 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 · £727,126 (12 grants)
- Comic Relief · £127,000
- The Tudor Trust · £125,000
- Garfield Weston Foundation · £105,000 (3 grants)
- Henry Smith Foundation · £46,500 (4 grants)
Most recent
- Postcode Local Trust
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.
7 trustees on the board
- Julie Cigman Chair since 2017
- Alison Cathles since 2016
- James Robert Lewis since 2020
- Maureen Zara Smith since 2021
- Patricia Rose Gifford since 2017
- Professor Catherine Ann Steele since 2025
- Robert Ian Palmer since 2024
Trustees past 6 years
- Julie Cigman Chair since 2017
- Alison Cathles since 2016
- Patricia Rose Gifford since 2017
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (6)
- Alison Cathles since 2016
- James Robert Lewis since 2020
- Maureen Zara Smith since 2021
- Patricia Rose Gifford since 2017
- Professor Catherine Ann Steele since 2025
- Robert Ian Palmer since 2024
Portfolio (1)
- Julie Cigman Chair since 2017
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
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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Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1110418
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 21 OCTOBER 2003. as amended on 11 Dec 2023 as amended on 21 Jul 2025
- Companies House
- Company number 04938680 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 01452415900 · time@fairshares.org.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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