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Registered charity · Hampshire

Communities First Wessex

  • 7 trustees
  • Income £4.4m (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
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability and 4 more
Where
Hampshire, Poole, Southampton City, Portsmouth City and more
Website
cfirst.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Communities First Wessex
Registered
2012

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£4.4m£3.7m
  • 2024£3.7m£3.7m
  • 2023£3.3m£3.3m
Earlier years
  • 2022£3.3m£3.1m
  • 2021£3.4m£2.9m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 30% · Government grants 19%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, PRINCIPALLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN HAMPSHIRE (INCLUDING PORTSMOUTH, SOUTHAMPTON AND THE ISLE OF WIGHT)AS WELL AS SURROUNDING AREAS (HEREINAFTER CALLED THE 'AREA OF BENEFIT') AND, IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION THE PROTECTION OF HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF POVERY, DISTRESS AND SICKNESS AND PROVIDE THEM WITH THE NECESSARY SUPPORT, INFORMATION AND SERVICES TO ENABLE THEM TO PURSUE OR CONTRIBUTE TO ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE.TO PROMOTE ORGANISE AND FACILILTATE CO-OPERATION AND PARTNERSHIP WORKING BETWEEN THIRD SECTOR, STATUTORY AND OTHER RELEVANT BODIES IN THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THE ABOVE PURPOSES WITHIN THE AREA OF BENEFIT.

Grants received

13 grants · £999,244 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

  • The National Lottery Community Fund £302,9542024-06-20
  • BBC Children in Need £1,0002021-08-31
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £79,4932021-03-29
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £86,9632020-06-18
  • Department for Transport £6,6752020-04-01
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.

7 trustees on the board

3.1y median 2y
average tenure
10y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

7
company-linked trustees

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

Education/training 7General Charitable Purposes 7The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 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.

Transport 7Business services 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.

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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£4.4m 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.

3.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 2.6 in 2021

105 from 105 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.
49%
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
1147527
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 16/05/2012AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 27 MAY 2015AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 20 JUL 2017AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 26 FEB 2018
Companies House
Company number 08071971 · Active
Contact on the register
0300 500 8085 · support@cfirst.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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