Registered charity · Surrey
Garden Route Children's Trust
- 12 trustees
- Income £113k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Ruth Jean BurnsChair · since 2011
- Alison LewisTrustee · since 2011
- Catherine Louise MichellTrustee
- Cathy WilliamsonTrustee
- Mark Kenneth ChapmanTrustee · since 2011
- Nicola Jane ViakovskyTrustee · since 2026
- Nicola Martha Ernestine GalazkaTrustee · since 2017
- Patrick John FlemingTrustee
- Paul HurrellTrustee · since 2023
- Ruth BurnsTrustee · since 2011
- Ruth GuthrieTrustee · since 2026
- Sophie BurnsTrustee · since 2022
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 Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Overseas Aid/famine Relief
- Where
- South Africa
- Website
- www.grct.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 2006
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£113k£94k
- 2024£77k£101k
- 2023£84k£95k
Earlier years
- 2022£73k£98k
- 2021£86k£83k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Charitable objects
TO RELIEVE FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AND TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN WHO LIVE IN THE SOUTHERN CAPE PROVINCE OF SOUTH AFRICA AND WHO COME FROM FINANCIALLY DISADVANTAGED FAMILIES AND, IN PARTICULAR, WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING1. TO ASSIST WITH THE PROVISION OF FOOD FOR SUCH CHILDREN2. TO ASSIST WITH THE PROVISION OF TEACHING PROGRAMMES
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.
12 trustees on the board
- Ruth Jean Burns Chair since 2011
- Alison Lewis since 2011
- Catherine Louise Michell
- Cathy Williamson
- Mark Kenneth Chapman since 2011
- Nicola Jane Viakovsky since 2026
- Nicola Martha Ernestine Galazka since 2017
- Patrick John Fleming
- Paul Hurrell since 2023
- Ruth Burns since 2011
- Ruth Guthrie since 2026
- Sophie Burns since 2022
Trustees past 6 years
- Ruth Jean Burns Chair since 2011
- Alison Lewis since 2011
- Mark Kenneth Chapman since 2011
- Nicola Martha Ernestine Galazka since 2017
- Ruth Burns since 2011
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (8)
- Alison Lewis since 2011
- Catherine Louise Michell
- Cathy Williamson
- Nicola Jane Viakovsky since 2026
- Nicola Martha Ernestine Galazka since 2017
- Paul Hurrell since 2023
- Ruth Burns since 2011
- Sophie Burns since 2022
Portfolio (4)
- Ruth Jean Burns Chair since 2011
- Mark Kenneth Chapman since 2011
- Patrick John Fleming
- Ruth Guthrie since 2026
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.
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
- 1116278
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- TRUST DEED DATED 02/10/2006
- Contact on the register
- 07515 470851 · enquiries@grct.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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