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Registered charity (CIO) · Sheffield

The Gavins Foundation

  • 5 trustees
  • Income £718k (2024)

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
General Charitable Purposes, Disability, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Other Charitable Purposes
Where
Throughout England And Wales, France, Malawi, Scotland
Website
thegavinsfoundation.com (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2016

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£718k£575k
  • 2023£972k£461k
  • 2022£245k£354k
Earlier years
  • 2021£623k£529k
  • 2020£414k£264k

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC AND AS AN EXPRESSION OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH, TO: (A) PRESERVE AND PROTECT HEALTH; (B) RELIEVE FINANCIAL HARDSHIP; AND (C) ADVANCE SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES WHICH ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES (OTHER THAN CHARITIES AND CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF ANIMALS) AS THE CHARITY TRUSTEES SHALL IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION THINK FIT, IN EACH CASE IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD AND BY SUCH MEANS AS THE CHARITY TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME SELECT, WHICH MAY INCLUDE THE MAKING OF GRANTS TO OTHER CHARITIES OR FOR THE SAID CHARITABLE PURPOSES.IN THE OBJECTS, THE "CHRISTIAN FAITH" HAS THE MEANING GIVEN IN CLAUSE 26 (INTERPRETATION). THE DEFINITION OF THE "CHRISTIAN FAITH" IN CLAUSE 26 IS AS FOLLOWS: CHRISTIAN FAITH MEANS THE CHRISTIAN FAITH AS DESCRIBED IN THE STATEMENT OF FAITH. A STATEMENT OF FAITH HAS BEEN ADDED AS A SCHEDULE TO THE CONSTITUTION. THE STATEMENT OF FAITH USED IS THAT OF THE EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE

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.

5 trustees on the board

8y median 10y
average tenure
10y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (4)

Portfolio (1)

1
company-linked trustees

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

Disability 5General Charitable Purposes 5The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 5

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

Professional services 1

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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£718k latest income · income exceeded spending in 2023 and 2024
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.

35.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 0.0 in 2020

5 from 2 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
1169665
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 13 Oct 2016 as amended on 29 Jul 2026
Contact on the register
0114 2511022
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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