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The Shade Trust

  • 5 trustees
  • Income £725k (2025)

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, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Overseas Aid/famine Relief, Religious Activities
Where
Leicestershire, India
Registered
2012

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£725k£697k
  • 2024£590k£585k
  • 2023£579k£575k
Earlier years
  • 2022£721k£719k
  • 2021£764k£762k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

1) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE POOR, THE ORPHANS, THE UNDERPRIVILEGED AND PEOPLE IN NEED BY MEANS OF, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, THE PROVISION OF SCHOLARSHIPS, EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMES, VOCATIONAL TRAINING, TUITION CLASSES, AND THE PROVISION OR THE ASSISTANCE IN THE PROVISION OF EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES, SUCH AS SCHOOLS, LIBRARIES AND TRAINING CENTRES;2) TO RELIEVE FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, DISTRESS AND SUFFERING AMONG THE POOR, THE UNDERPRIVILEGED, THE ELDERLY, THE DISABLED, WIDOWS, ORPHANS, THE HOMELESS, VICTIMS OF NATURAL AND MAN-MADE DISASTERS AND PEOPLE IN NEED IN THE UK AND ABROAD, BY MEANS OF, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, MAKING GRANTS OR LOANS FOR PROVIDING OR PAYING FOR ITEMS, EQUIPMENT, SERVICES AND FACILITIES, INCLUDING THE PROVISION OF FOOD, WATER, CLOTHING, MEDICAL TREATMENT, REHABILITATION, AND ACCOMMODATION FOR THE SAID PERSONS;3) TO RELIEVE SICKNESS AND TO PRESERVE GOOD HEALTH AMONG THE POOR, UNDERPRIVILEGED, THE ELDERLY, THE DISABLED AND PEOPLE IN NEED BY MEANS OF, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, THE PROVISION OR ASSISTANCE IN THE PROVISION OF SERVICES, FACILITIES, EQUIPMENT, CLINICS, MEDICINES OR GRANTS FOR MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT, AND PROVISION OF HEALTH EDUCATION;4) TO ADVANCE THE RELIGION OF ISLAM BY MEANS OF, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR WORSHIP AND PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR ISLAMIC EDUCATION;5) TO PROMOTE ANY OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THOSE IN NEED THAT THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.

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.

14y median 14y
average tenure
14y
longest tenure
14.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (4)

Portfolio (1)

0
company-linked trustees

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

General Charitable Purposes 5The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 5Overseas Aid/famine Relief 4Religious Activities 1

Gaps to watch

  • No commercial or business experience on the board
  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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£725k 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.

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

0
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
1147738
Status
Registered
Governing document
TRUST DEED DATED 26 JAN 2012
Contact on the register
07735599968
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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