Registered charity · Hampshire
Thorngate Churcher Trust
- 9 trustees
- Income £4.0m (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Mark William Paul HookChair · since 2015
- Christopher Keith MatthewsTrustee · since 2015
- David Popoola-SmithTrustee · since 2022
- Joao Henrique Brito Costa LoretiTrustee · since 2026
- John Graham ClarkTrustee · since 2020
- Judith Rebecca ComberTrustee · since 2025
- Julie K PalmerTrustee · since 2019
- Neil Robert PettigrewTrustee · since 2025
- Oliver ZakiTrustee · since 2020
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, Accommodation/housing
- Where
- Hampshire
- Website
- www.thorngate.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Thorngate Churcher Trust
- Registered
- 2016
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£4.0m£3.4m
- 2024£3.6m£3.2m
- 2023£3.2m£3.0m
Earlier years
- 2022£3.1m£2.7m
- 2021£2.8m£2.7m
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 22%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF RESIDENTS WHO ARE IN NEED BY PROVIDING SOCIAL HOUSING IN THE FORM OF ALMSHOUSE ACCOMMODATION AND SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE RELIEF FOR THE BENEFIT OF SUCH RESIDENTS OR OTHER PERSONS WHO ARE IN NEED BY REASON OF THEIR AGE AS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT.FOR THE BENEFIT OF THIS CLAUSE, "RESIDENTS" SHALL MEAN POOR PERSONS OF NOT LESS THAN 50 YEARS OF AGE.
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.
9 trustees on the board
- Mark William Paul Hook Chair since 2015
- Christopher Keith Matthews since 2015
- David Popoola-Smith since 2022
- Joao Henrique Brito Costa Loreti since 2026
- John Graham Clark since 2020
- Judith Rebecca Comber since 2025
- Julie K Palmer since 2019
- Neil Robert Pettigrew since 2025
- Oliver Zaki since 2020
Trustees past 6 years
- Mark William Paul Hook Chair since 2015
- Christopher Keith Matthews since 2015
- John Graham Clark since 2020
- Julie K Palmer since 2019
- Oliver Zaki since 2020
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (8)
- Mark William Paul Hook Chair since 2015
- Christopher Keith Matthews since 2015
- David Popoola-Smith since 2022
- Joao Henrique Brito Costa Loreti since 2026
- John Graham Clark since 2020
- Judith Rebecca Comber since 2025
- Julie K Palmer since 2019
- Oliver Zaki since 2020
Portfolio (1)
- Neil Robert Pettigrew since 2025
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
29.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1169965
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 15 JAN 2016AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 26 OCT 2016AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 04 NOV 2016
- Companies House
- Company number 09953572 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 02392534999 · info@thorngate.org.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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