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Sturts Community Trust

  • 5 trustees
  • Income £3.8m (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
Education/training, Disability, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Accommodation/housing and 1 more
Where
Dorset
Website
www.sturtscommunitytrust.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Sturts Community Trust
Registered
2013

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£3.8m£3.6m
  • 2024£3.2m£3.3m
  • 2023£3.1m£3.0m
Earlier years
  • 2022£2.9m£2.8m
  • 2021£2.5m£2.3m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 57% · Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, TO RELIEVE SICKNESS, PROMOTE GOOD HEALTH, PROVIDE SOCIAL HOUSING AND/OR CARE TO, AND ADVANCE THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF: PEOPLE WITH A DISABILITY (WHETHER MENTAL OR PHYSICAL), THE YOUNG, THE OLD, OR PEOPLE OTHERWISE IN NEED, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PRINCIPLES OF DR RUDOLF STEINER (AS SUMMARISED IN SCHEDULE 2 TO THESE ARTICLES), PARTICULARLY (WITHOUT LIMITATION) BY THE ESTABLISHMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF INTENTIONAL COMMUNITIES IN THE FORM OF VILLAGES, RESIDENTIAL HOUSES, DAY CENTRES, KINDERGARTENS, SCHOOLS, COLLEGES OR OTHER TYPES OF SOCIAL AND/OR EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY, IN WHICH BENEFICIARIES LIVE AND/OR WORK AND/OR TO WHICH THEY OTHERWISE RESORT, IN COMMUNITY WITH PERSONS PROVIDING SUPPORT (KNOWN AS 'CO-WORKERS').

Grants received

11 grants · £547,207 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

  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities · £375,000
  • The Clothworkers' Foundation · £100,000
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · £60,207 (8 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £12,000

Most recent

  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £4,0172024-04-01
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £11,5162024-04-01
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £5,2262023-04-01
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £21,7642023-04-01
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £3,9342023-04-01
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.

5 trustees on the board

4.6y median 4y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

12.2y
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.

Disability 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.

Other services 5Health and social care 2Hospitality 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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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£3.8m latest income
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.

1.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 35.8 in 2021

55 from 47 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.
57%
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
1152152
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 14 JAN 2013AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 15 MAY 2018
Companies House
Company number 08359958 · Active
Contact on the register
01202870338 · office@sturtsfarm.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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