Registered charity · Aylesbury
The Hesperus Foundation
- 2 trustees
- Income £9k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources
Who leads it
- Peter VainesTrustee
- Susan HarrisonTrustee · since 2014
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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People on this board also serve on 1 other charity:
- KEN Dodd Charitable Foundation · 1 shared trustee
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About
- What it does
- General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
- Where
- Throughout England And Wales
- Registered
- 2006
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£9k£25k
- 2024£1k£0
- 2023£2k£1k
Earlier years
- 2022£7k£2k
- 2021£2k£1k
Charitable objects
(A.) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY GENERALLY AND N PARTICULAR:(A) TO PROVIDE FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO THOSE IN NEED OF RELATIONSHIP COUNSELLING FROM RELATE OXFORDSHIRE (REGISTERED WITH THE CHARITY COMMISSION NUMBER 8071567) OR ANY OTHER CHARITABLE ORGANISATION PROVIDING SIMILAR COUNSELLING SERVICES AND WHO ARE OR MAY BE DEPRIVED OF SUCH SERVICES THROUGH LACK OF MONEY, AND (B) TO PROVIDE FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO RELATE OXFORDSHIRE AND ANY OTHER EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ORGANISATIONS PROVIDING SIMILAR COUNSELLING SERVICES FOR THE PROVISION OF SUCH SERVICES.(B.) THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC ON THE BENEFITS OF SECURE COUPLE RELATIONSHIPS, MARRIAGE AND FAMILY LIFE IN ORDER TO IMPROVE THE EMOTIONAL AND SPIRITUAL WELL BEING OF INDIVIDUALS WHICH IS DERIVED FROM COMMITTED RELATIONSHIPS.WHICH TOGETHER SHALL BE REFERRED TO AS "THE PRINCIPAL PURPOSES".
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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.
2 trustees on the board
- Peter Vaines
- Susan Harrison since 2014
Trustees past 6 years
- Susan Harrison since 2014
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Gaps to watch
- Small board - little cover if a trustee leaves
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
- 1116285
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CHARITABLE TRUST DATED 31 AUGUST 2006 AS AMENDED BY TRUST DEED DATED 31 AUGUST 2006.
- Contact on the register
- 02071898191 · peter@bakersclose.com
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 13th 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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