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Registered charity · Bournemouth

BH Live

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £48m (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
Arts/culture/heritage/science, Amateur Sport, Recreation
Where
Dorset, Bournemouth, Portsmouth City, Croydon
Website
www.bhlive.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
BH Live
Registered
2010

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£48m£47m
  • 2024£47m£47m
  • 2023£42m£42m
Earlier years
  • 2022£34m£34m
  • 2021£18m£21m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2023: Government contracts under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

5.1.1TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES AND SERVICES FOR RECREATIONAL, SPORTINGOR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE, SUCH FACILITIES BEINGPROVIDED TO THE PUBLIC AT LARGE SAVE THAT SPECIAL FACILITIES MAY BE PROVIDED FORPERSONS WHO BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, POVERTY OR SOCIAL ORECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES MAY HAVE NEED OF SPECIAL FACILITIES AND SERVICES; AND/OR5.1.2 TO PROMOTE COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATION; AND/OR5.1.3 TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR ART, CULTURE AND HERITAGE; AND/OR5.1.4 TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION AND MANAGEMENT OF PARKS AND OPEN SPACES;AND/OR5.1.5 SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES BENEFICIAL TO THE COMMUNITY CONSISTENT WITH THEOBJECTS ABOVE AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINE (THE'OBJECTS')".

Grants received

2 grants · £20,900 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

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.

4.1y median 3y
average tenure
11y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

21.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

Portfolio (1)

10
company-linked trustees

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

Amateur Sport 10Arts/culture/heritage/science 10Recreation 10

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 13Other services 7Hospitality 6

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£48.1m 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.

0.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 0.0 in 2021

1483 from 1517 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
1138311
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 1 DECEMBER 2009 as amended on 04 Nov 2021
Companies House
Company number 07092112 · Active
Contact on the register
01202055555 · enquiries@bhlive.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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