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Registered charity · Newcastle upon Tyne

Action Foundation

  • 5 trustees
  • Income £1.8m (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
Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Accommodation/housing, Economic/community Development/employment
Where
Gateshead, Newcastle Upon Tyne City, Sunderland
Website
www.actionfoundation.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Action Foundation
Registered
2009

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.8m£1.6m
  • 2024£1.5m£1.5m
  • 2023£1.3m£1.5m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.4m£1.6m
  • 2021£1.7m£1.6m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 6% · Government grants 11%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE COMPANY IS ESTABLISHED FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT ARE:3.1 THE PREVENTION AND/OR RELIEF OF POVERTY BY THE PROVISION OF ADVICE ANDASSISTANCE, TRAINING AND THE PROVISION OF HOUSING AND ACCOMMODATION FORPERSONS IN NEED OF SUCH PROVISIONS AND THE IMPROVEMENT OF HOUSING ANDLIVING CONDITIONS FOR SUCH PERSONS;3.2 THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT;3.3 THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, ILL HEALTH,DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL DISADVANTAGE, PARTICULARLY PERSONSSUFFERING OR RECOVERING FROM SUBSTANCE ABUSE, EATING DISORDERS,PROSTITUTION OR PERSONS IN SIMILAR SITUATIONS; AND3.4 THE PROMOTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS (AS SET OUT IN THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OFHUMAN RIGHTS AND SUBSEQUENT UNITED NATIONS CONVENTIONS ANDDECLARATIONS) THROUGHOUT THE WORLD BY RELIEVING NEED AMONG THE VICTIMSOF HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE.

Grants received

96 grants · £2,803,415 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.

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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 trustees on the board

5.8y median 4y
average tenure
14y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

15.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (4)

Portfolio (1)

4
company-linked trustees

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

Accommodation/housing 5Education/training 5The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 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.

Business services 4Education 1Health and social care 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.

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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£1.8m 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.

0.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 3.6 in 2021

30 from 29 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.
17%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1132051
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 6 OCTOBER 2009
Companies House
Company number 06946097 · Active
Contact on the register
01912313113 · info@actionfoundation.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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