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Registered charity · Bristol

West of England Rural Network

  • 7 trustees
  • Income £527k (2025)
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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
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Economic/community Development/employment
Where
North Somerset, Bath And North East Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Bristol City
Website
www.wern.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
West of England Rural Network
Registered
2012

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£527k£578k
  • 2024£337k£406k
  • 2023£406k£372k
Earlier years
  • 2022£392k£271k
  • 2021£275k£238k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 71%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN THE WEST OF ENGLAND (BEING AN AREA SERVED BY THE ADMINISTRATIVE AREAS OF NORTH SOMERSET, BATH & NORTH EAST SOMERSET, BRISTOL AND SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE, HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AS THE AREA OF BENEFIT) AND IN PARTICULAR THAT OF THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED, BY REASON OF YOUTH, AGE, ILL-HEALTH, DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE, THE ADVANCEMENT OF CITIZENSHIP OR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OR BY PURSUING ANY OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES.

Grants received

34 grants · £315,349 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

  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £130,843 (3 grants)
  • Quartet Community Foundation · £107,786 (25 grants)
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · £60,000 (4 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport · £8,360
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £8,360

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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.

7 trustees on the board

2.7y median 3y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

Portfolio (1)

6
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 7Education/training 7General Charitable Purposes 7

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

Other services 5Professional services 4Property 2

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.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£527k latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

2.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months

23
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
1146165
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 13/02/2012
Companies House
Company number 07956732 · Active
Contact on the register
01275333701 · contact@wern.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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