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Registered charity · Cardiff

Purple Shoots Business Lending LTD

  • 5 trustees
  • Income £450k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 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, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Economic/community Development/employment
Where
Throughout Wales
Website
www.purpleshoots.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Purple Shoots Business Lending Limited
Registered
2014

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£450k£563k
  • 2024£703k£665k
  • 2023£647k£643k
Earlier years
  • 2022£697k£603k
  • 2021£158k£325k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 5%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE FURTHERANCE OF SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES (CHARITABLE UNDER THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES) FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC AS THE DIRECTORS SEE FIT FROM TIME TO TIME IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT LIMITED TO:(A) THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY; (B) SUPPORTING THE WORK OF CHARITIES OR FURTHERING CHARITABLE PURPOSES FALLING UNDER THE DESCRIPTION OF CHARITABLE PURPOSES THAT IS THE ADVANCEMENT OF CITIZENSHIP OR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT IN PARTICULAR PROMOTING COMMUNITY CAPACITY BUILDING AND URBAN AND RURAL REGENERATION; (C) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION; AND(D) THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED BY REASON OF AGE, ILL-HEALTH, DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE.

Grants received

10 grants · £409,381 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 Digital, Culture, Media and Sport · £173,714 (2 grants)
  • Postcode Innovation Trust · £100,000
  • Department for Culture, Media and Sport · £87,107
  • The Leathersellers' Foundation · £20,000
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £18,980 (2 grants)

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Community Fund £9,1002023-01-17
  • Postcode Innovation Trust £100,0002022-05-27
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £9,5802020-09-04
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £9,8802020-07-20
  • The Leathersellers' Foundation £20,0002020-03-06
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

1.6y median 1y
average tenure
4y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
7.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (2)

Portfolio (3)

4
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 5The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 5General Charitable Purposes 4Economic/community Development/employment 1

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

Finance 8Education 1Other services 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£450k latest income

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1155385
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 10/07/2013AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 19/08/2013AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 03/01/2014
Companies House
Company number 08603690 · Active
Contact on the register
07726599267 · info@purpleshoots.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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