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Registered charity (CIO) · Chelmsford

Active Essex Foundation

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £1.3m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Amateur Sport, Recreation
Where
Essex, Thurrock, Southend-on-sea
Website
www.activeessexfoundation.org (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2016

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.3m£1.1m
  • 2024£787k£635k
  • 2023£252k£397k
Earlier years
  • 2022£238k£14k
  • 2021£103k£83k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 80%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO PROMOTE COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF GREATER ESSEX IN PARTICULAR BY:- (1) WORKING WITH AND THROUGH LOCAL AGENCIES TO INCREASE LEVELS OF PARTICIPATION IN SPORT AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; (2) PROMOTING AND PROVIDING PROGRAMMES AND SERVICES FOR SPORT, RECREATION, PHYSICAL ACTIVITY, INFORMAL EDUCATION AND OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION FOR HEALTHY RECREATION; (3) PROMOTING AND PROVIDING FACILITIES AND SERVICES FOR RECREATIONAL, SPORTING OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR THE PUBLIC AT LARGE OR THOSE WHO BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES, HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES AND SERVICES; AND (4) THE IMPROVEMENT AND PRESERVATION OF GOOD HEALTH AND WELL-BEING THROUGH PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATION.

Grants received

14 grants · £2,225,630 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

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.

8 trustees on the board

7.8y median 10y
average tenure
10y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

Portfolio (2)

0
company-linked trustees

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

Amateur Sport 8The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 8Recreation 7Education/training 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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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£1.3m 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.

0.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months

5 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
1166665
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - FOUNDATION REGISTERED 21 APR 2016AMENDED ON 31 JUL 2017
Contact on the register
07894081626 · foundation@activeessex.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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