The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 12th July 2026

The Aitken Family Charitable Trust

Registered charity 1168153 Registered since 2016

Operates: Throughout England And Wales

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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

8.7y median 10y
average tenure
10y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

0
company-linked trustees

Gaps to watch

  • No commercial or business experience on the board
  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together
  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

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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£869k 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.

1.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 0.0 in 2021

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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.

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

Also active in the same field

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Emailcharitabletrusts@ludlowtrust.com
Phone01173138200
AddressLudlow Trust Co Ltd, Tower Wharf, Cheese Lane, BRISTOL, BS2 0JJ

Finances

£868,576 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£811,419£910,050
2022£203,775£202,679
2023£54,416£299,036
2024£402,109£455,052
2025£868,576£808,620

What it does

What

General Charitable PurposesEducation/training

Who

Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies

How

Makes Grants To Organisations

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE TRUST ARE TO FURTHER SUCH OBJECTS OR PURPOSES WHICH ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD AND IN SUCH MANNER AS THE TRUSTEES MAY IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION THINK FIT.

Governing document: TRUST DEED DATED 16 FEB 2016

Trustees (7)

6trustees
0aged 70+

Connected charities (0)

No charities share a trustee (from current data).

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