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Wates Family Enterprise Trust

Wates Family Enterprise Trust is a registered charity (number 1126007) based in Leatherhead, governed by 8 trustees and chaired by TIM Wates. Latest income £1.8m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 18th October 2026.

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £1.8m (2025)

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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, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability and 7 more
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland
Website
watesgiving.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Wates Family Enterprise Trust Limited
Registered
2008

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.8m£2.0m
  • 2024£1.9m£1.7m
  • 2023£1.5m£1.6m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.5m£1.2m
  • 2021£826k£683k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

TO FURTHER SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSE OR PURPOSES FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AS THE DIRECTORS IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION SHALL THINK FIT

Grants received

2 grants · £10,020,000 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

Most recent

  • LUND TRUST £10,000,0002026-01-07
  • Gower Street £20,0002024-11-01
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.

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

General Charitable Purposes 8The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 7Education/training 5Disability 3Arts/culture/heritage/science 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.

Professional services 34Construction 23Business services 17

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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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£1.9m latest income
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.

6.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months

6 from 3 in 2020
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
1126007
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 16 JULY 2008
Companies House
Company number 06648896 · Active
Contact on the register
01372861250 · tracy.snelling@wates.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 18th October 2026
Labels
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