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Registered charity · Hampshire

The Makaton Charity

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £2.0m (2025)
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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
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Disability
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.makaton.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Makaton Charity
Registered
2007

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£2.0m£2.0m
  • 2024£2.1m£2.0m
  • 2023£1.9m£1.7m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.5m£1.4m
  • 2021£1.3m£1.3m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE:(A) THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE USE AND DEVELOPMENT OF LANGUAGE AND OF COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS AND TOOLS (INCLUDING THE MAKATON PROGRAMME) FOR THE BENEFIT OF PERSONS WITH ACTUAL OR ANTICIPATED LEARNING OR COMMUNICATION DIFFICULTIES IN ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD AND THOSE WHO COMMUNICATE WITH THEM; AND (B) SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE.

Grants received

3 grants · £29,161 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 · £29,161 (3 grants)

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Community Fund £9,5002021-04-29
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £10,0002016-03-16
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £9,6612012-11-22
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.

10 trustees on the board

1.7y median 1.5y
average tenure
4y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
6.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

Portfolio (2)

9
company-linked trustees

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

Disability 10Education/training 9General Charitable Purposes 9Environment/conservation/heritage 1The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 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.

Health and social care 23Education 12Business services 3

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£2.0m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025
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.

5.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 2.1 in 2021

26 from 17 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.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1119819
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 14/06/2007AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 01/11/2007AS REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 19/12/2012 as amended on 29 Mar 2022
Companies House
Company number 06280108 · Active
Contact on the register
01276606760 · info@makaton.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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