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Exeter City Community Trust

1.1.1 to promote for the benefit of children, young persons and adults within the Area of Benefit, the provision of, or the assistance in the provision of, facilities for education and recreation or other leisure time occupation of individuals who...

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £2.5m (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Education/training, Disability, Accommodation/housing, Amateur Sport and 1 more
Where
Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, Torbay
Website
www.exetercct.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Exeter City Community Trust
Registered
2007

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£2.5m£2.2m
  • 2024£2.3m£1.9m
  • 2023£2.1m£1.7m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.7m£1.4m
  • 2021£1.1m£940k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 16%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

1.1.1 to promote for the benefit of children, young persons and adults within the Area of Benefit, the provision of, or the assistance in the provision of, facilities for education and recreation or other leisure time occupation of individuals who have need of such facilities by reason of their youth, age, infirmity or disablement, financial hardship or social and economic circumstances or for the public at large in the interests of social welfare and with the object of improving their condition of life; 1.1.2 to relieve poverty or financial hardship among people living or working within the Area of Benefit, by providing or assisting in the provision of education, training, housing management services and other necessary services and support with the object of improving their condition of life which they could otherwise not afford through lack of means; 1.1.3 to promote social inclusion for the public benefit by preventing people within the Area of Benefit, from becoming socially excluded, relieving the needs of those who are socially excluded and assisting them to integrate into society. For the purpose of this clause, ‘socially excluded’ means being excluded from society, as a result of one or more of the following factors: unemployment; financial hardship; youth or old age; ill health (physical or mental); poor educational skills or attainment; relationship and family breakdown, poor housing (that is housing that does meet basic habitable standards); crime (either as a victim of crime or as an offender rehabilitating into society); and 1.1.4 to promote, preserve and the protect the physical and mental health and well-being of people within the Area of Benefit, in particular (but without limitation) by providing and assisting in the provision of facilities and activities, information and support to improve health and fitness and help people maintain a healthy lifestyle.

Grants received

29 grants · £627,653 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

  • Devon Community Foundation · £463,913 (21 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £80,000
  • Sport England · £38,200 (4 grants)
  • Ministry of Defence · £36,000 (2 grants)
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £9,540

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.

9 trustees on the board

4.3y median 4y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (2)

8
company-linked trustees

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

Education/training 9Accommodation/housing 8Disability 8General Charitable Purposes 1The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 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.

Hospitality 8Utilities 8Arts and leisure 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£2.5m 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.

10.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 6.6 in 2021

99 from 68 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
1121596
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 15/01/2007AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 27/06/2012AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 16/01/2014AS REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 11/03/2014AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 23 AUG 2017 as amended on 11 Feb 2022
Companies House
Company number 06053326 · Active
Contact on the register
01392 255 611 · cctadmin@ecfc.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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