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Registered charity · Middlesex

Active Communities Network Limited

  • 7 trustees
  • Income £1.9m (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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Public contracts won

1 contract · £1,600,000 total

From Contracts Finder and Find a Tender, the UK Government's public procurement notices, under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Matched to this organisation by company number, charity number or exact name and postcode; every figure links to its source notice.

  • London's Violence Reduction Unit My Ends 2.0 Programme Buyer: MAYOR'S OFFICE FOR POLICE AND CRIME £1,600,000 2024-04-01 CPV 85000000 Source: Contracts Finder

    The London Violence Reduction Unit (VRU) invites you to bid for the second iteration of its award-winning, community-led MyEnds programme. The MyEnds programme utilises a hyper-local approach to address needs in neighbourhoods across the…

About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Amateur Sport and 1 more
Where
Throughout England And Wales, South Africa, Northern Ireland
Website
www.activecommunities.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Active Communities Network Limited
Registered
2007

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.9m£1.7m
  • 2024£2.1m£2.0m
  • 2023£2.1m£2.1m
Earlier years
  • 2022£2.4m£2.2m
  • 2021£1.8m£1.7m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 63%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE COMPANY ARE TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF PEOPLE BOTH NATIONALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY, WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, RACE OR POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS, BY ASSOCIATING TOGETHER THE SAID INHABITANTS AND THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATIONS WITH THE OBJECTS OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF THE SAID INHABITANTS AND WITH THE VIEW OF REDUCING SOCIAL ISOLATION AND BUILDING COMMUNITY COHESION.

Grants received

64 grants · £12,304,895 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 · £7,219,958 (16 grants)
  • Sport England · £2,511,004 (20 grants)
  • Maudsley Charity · £1,003,037 (2 grants)
  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities · £501,619 (2 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £307,362 (2 grants)

Most recent

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.

5.3y median 6y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure
7.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

7
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 7Education/training 7General Charitable Purposes 7

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Arts and leisure 11Professional services 2Tech and media 2

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£1.9m 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.

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

38 from 60 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
1121216
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 6 FEBRUARY 2007 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS DATED 12 SEPTEMBER 2007 AND 8 SEPTEMBER 2009.
Companies House
Company number 06086438 · Active
Contact on the register
020 7407 8177 · finance@activecommunities.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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