Skip to content
Governance Register

Registered charity · Swansea

Gorseinon Development Trust

  • 5 trustees
  • Income £1.3m (2025)

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

Network

The large node is Gorseinon Development Trust. Red nodes are organisations, white nodes are people. Sign in free to explore further.

Who leads it

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

Do you help lead this organisation? Set up its network · How it works

About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Economic/community Development/employment, Other Charitable Purposes
Where
City Of Swansea
Website
www.gdt.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Gorseinon Development Trust LTD.
Registered
2008

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.3m£920k
  • 2024£855k£789k
  • 2023£731k£674k
Earlier years
  • 2022£614k£569k
  • 2021£505k£499k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 28%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE PROMOTION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT OF URBAN AND RURAL REGENERATION IN AREAS OF SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEPRIVATION, AROUND THE GORSEINON AND SURROUNDING AREA BY ALL OR ANY OF THE FOLLOWING MEANS:A THE RELIEF OF POVERTY IN SUCH WAYS AS MAY BE THOUGHT FIT;B THE RELIEF OF UNEMPLOYMENT IN SUCH WAYS AS MAY BE THOUGHT FIT, INCLUDING ASSISTANCE TO FIND EMPLOYMENT;C THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND VOCATIONAL TRAINING, PARTICULARLY AMONG UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE AND PROVIDING UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE WITH WORK EXPERIENCE;D THE PROVISION OF FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE, TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE, OR BUSINESS ADVICE AND CONSULTANCY IN ORDER TO PROVIDE TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE IN CASES OF FINANCIAL OR OTHER CHARITABLE NEED THROUGH HELP:I IN SETTING UP THEIR OWN BUSINESS; ORII TO EXISTING BUSINESSES;III TO ESTABLISH/SUPPORT OTHER CHARITABLE AGENCIESE THE CREATION OF TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES BY THE PROVISION OF WORKSPACE, BUILDINGS AND LAND FOR USE ON FAVOURABLE TERMS;F THE PROVISION OF HOUSING FOR THOSE WHO ARE IN THE CONDITIONS OF NEED AND IMPROVEMENT OF HOUSING IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR OR IN CHARITABLE OWNERSHIP PROVIDED THAT SUCH POWER SHALL NOT EXTEND TO RELIEVING ANY LOCAL AUTHORITIES OR OTHER BODIES OF A STATUTORY DUTY TO PROVIDE OR IMPROVE HOUSING;G THE MAINTENANCE, IMPROVEMENT OR PROVISION OF PUBLIC AMENITIES;H THE PROVISION OR ASSISTANCE IN THE PROVISION OF RECREATIONAL FACILITIES AND EVENTS FOR THE PUBLIC OR THOSE WHO, BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES, HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES AND EVENTS;I THE PROTECTION AND CONSERVATION OF THE ENVIRONMENT;J THE PROVISION OF PUBLIC HEALTH FACILITIES AND CHILDCARE;K THE PROMOTION OF PUBLIC SAFETY AND PREVENTION OF CRIME;L SUCH OTHER MEANS AS MAY FROM TIME TO TIME BE DETERMINED SUBJECT TO THE PRIOR CONSENT OF THE CHARITY COMMISSIONERS FOR ENGLAND AND WALES.

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.

8.5y median 8.5y
average tenure
14y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

19y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (5)

5
company-linked trustees

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

Economic/community Development/employment 5Education/training 5General Charitable Purposes 5

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

Property 5Construction 1Education 1

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.

🔒 Succession forecast is a Pro feature - the board seats likely to open in the next year and the ideal next trustee. Explore Pro →

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£1.3m 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.

2.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 1.5 in 2021

42 from 32 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
1123576
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 22 FEBRUARY 2007NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 11/08/2015
Companies House
Company number 04645611 · Active
Contact on the register
01792897657 · info@gdt.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.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Report an issue · How we handle data