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Registered charity (CIO) · Worcester

Worcester Municipal Charities (CIO)

  • 17 trustees
  • Income £1.4m (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
Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Accommodation/housing
Where
Worcestershire
Website
www.wmcharities.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2016

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.4m£1.4m
  • 2024£1.4m£1.6m
  • 2023£1.4m£1.5m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.4m£1.5m
  • 2021£1.5m£1.3m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 6% · Government grants 3%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE:-(A) THE RELIEF OF PERSONS RESIDENT IN THE CITY OF WORCESTER WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS INCLUDING BY MAKING GRANTS OF MONEY TO INDIVIDUALS, OR TO ORGANISATIONS WHICH PROVIDE RELEVANT SERVICES; OR PROVIDING OR PAYING FOR ITEMS, SERVICES OR FACILITIES CALCULATED TO REDUCE THE NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS OF SUCH PERSONS;(B) TO CARRY ON FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY THE BUSINESS OF THE PROVISION OF SOCIAL HOUSING IN THE FORM OF ALMSHOUSES AND AFFORDABLE SOCIAL HOUSING AND ANY ASSOCIATED AMENITIES FOR PERSONS IN NECESSITOUS CIRCUMSTANCES UPON TERMS APPROPRIATE TO THEIR MEANS; AND (C) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION BY PROMOTING EDUCATION IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT BEING THE CITY OF WORCESTER, THE PARISHES OF POWICK, BRANSFORD AND RUSHWICK AND THE AREA OF THE ANCIENT PARISH OF LEIGH, ALL IN THE COUNTY OF WORCESTERSHIRE, IN SUCH WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT.

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.

17 trustees on the board

14.5y median 12y
average tenure
42y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

18y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

Portfolio (8)

8
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 16The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 15Accommodation/housing 12Arts/culture/heritage/science 3The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 2Amateur Sport 1Environment/conservation/heritage 1General Charitable Purposes 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.

Health and social care 7Other services 5Arts and leisure 3

Gaps to watch

  • 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£1.4m 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.

3.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 6.6 in 2021

5 from 5 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.
9%
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
1166931
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - FOUNDATION REGISTERED 04 MAY 2016AMENDED ON 29 JUN 2017 as amended on 28 Mar 2018
Contact on the register
01905317117 · admin@wmcharities.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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