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Bournemouth WAR Memorial Homes

  • 6 trustees
  • Income £811k (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
Accommodation/housing
Where
Bournemouth
Website
www.bwmh.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Bournemouth WAR Memorial Homes
Registered
2015

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£811k£270k
  • 2024£526k£337k
  • 2023£466k£349k
Earlier years
  • 2022£430k£329k
  • 2021£413k£308k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO THE FOLLOWING:4.1 THE RELIEF OF BENEFICIARIES WHO ARE IN NEED BY REASON OF ILL HEALTH. DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR OTHER SOCIAL OR ECONOMIC DISADVANTAGE THROUGH THE PROVISION OF ACCOMMODATION.4.2 SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE BENEFICIARIES AS ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL DECIDE.4.3 IF AND IN SO FAR AS THE INCOME OF THE CHARITY CANNOT BE APPLIED TOWARDS THE OBJECTS ABOVE IT MAY BE APPLIED FOR ANY OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSE PROVIDING ASSISTANCE TO BENEFICIARIES."BENEFICIARIES" MEANS FORMER MEMBERS OF THE MERCHANT NAVY, FORMER SERVICE PERSONNEL OF THE ARMED FORCES OF THE CROWN AND WIDOWS, WIDOWERS AND SURVIVING DEPENDANTS OF MEN OR WOMEN WHO HAVE SERVED IN THE MERCHANT NAVY OR ARMED FORCES OF THE CROWN AND WHO ARE IN NEED OR VULNERABLE BY REASON OF THEIR PHYSICAL OR MENTAL HEALTH, SOCIAL OR ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES, WITH A PREFERENCE FOR PEOPLE WHO RESIDE OR HAVE RESIDED IN THE BOROUGH OF BOURNEMOUTH.

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.

6 trustees on the board

9.8y median 11.5y
average tenure
12y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

15.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

6
company-linked trustees

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

Accommodation/housing 6

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

Property 7Arts and leisure 2Business services 2

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together
  • 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£811k 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.

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

3 from 3 in 2024
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
1162066
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 29 JAN 2014AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 01/06/2015
Companies House
Company number 08867218 · Active
Contact on the register
01202302881 · estatemanager@bwmh.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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