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Registered charity (CIO) · London

The Brightside Trust

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £753k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th 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
Education/training
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
brightside.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2015

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£753k£999k
  • 2024£852k£1.1m
  • 2023£804k£1.2m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.1m£1.2m
  • 2021£1.0m£3.2m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 15%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE CHARITY’S OBJECTS ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT:(A)THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION;(B)TO ADVANCE IN LIFE AND PROVIDE RELIEF TO THOSE IN NEED BY REASON OF YOUTH, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE, IN PARTICULAR, BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION BY:(I)PROVIDING SUPPORT AND ACTIVITIES WHICH DEVELOP THEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS; AND (II)RELIEVING UNEMPLOYMENT.

Grants received

5 grants · £350,125 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

  • Garfield Weston Foundation £30,0002025-10-02
  • Westminster Foundation £10,0002025-06-05
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £17,9452024-12-19
  • Greater London Authority £285,0002024-01-01
  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology £7,1802023-03-28
Board analysis for researchers

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.

10 trustees on the board

2.6y median 2.5y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
3.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

Portfolio (2)

1
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 10Arts/culture/heritage/science 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.

Arts and leisure 1Business services 1

Gaps to watch

  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

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£753k 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.

10.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 6.9 in 2021

16 from 14 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.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1159993
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - Foundation Registered 19 Jan 2015 as amended on 22 Dec 2020 as amended on 13 Feb 2025
Contact on the register
020 3096 8120 · info@brightside.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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