Registered charity · Bedford
Chums Charity
Chums Charity is a registered charity (number 1179048) based in Bedford, governed by 6 trustees and chaired by Andrew Mark Carter since 2023. Latest income £537k (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 18th October 2026.
Also known as Chums (Charity Commission)
- 6 trustees
- Income £537k (2025)
The people who lead this organisation are listed below. Create a free account to save it, get alerts and check how you are connected.
Official record Charity Commission · updated 18th October 2026 · Sources · Free, no card or password
Network
The large node is Chums Charity. Red nodes are organisations, white nodes are people. Dashed links are historical or inferred. Click any node to explore.
Who leads it
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
Do you help lead this organisation? Set up its network · How it works
Similar charities are matched by type of organisation or purpose and listed by latest income; shared trustees are formal board links. Neither is proof the organisations work together.
About
- What it does
- Disability, Recreation, Other Charitable Purposes
- Where
- Throughout England And Wales
- Website
- chumscharity.org (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Chums Charity
- Registered
- 2018
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£537k£546k
- 2024£448k£469k
- 2023£541k£551k
Earlier years
- 2022£357k£350k
- 2021£427k£408k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2022: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
TO PROMOTE THE PRESERVATION OF MENTAL HEALTH AND TO ASSIST IN RELIEVING AND REHABILITATING PERSONS SUFFERING FROM MENTAL DISORDER OR CONDITIONS OF EMOTIONAL OR MENTAL DISTRESS, IN PARTICULAR BY PROVIDING SUPPORT TO CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES AFFECTED BY BEREAVEMENT, TRAUMA AND OTHER EMOTIONAL AND MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM
Grants received
22 grants · £536,709 total360Giving 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
- Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation · £195,842 (10 grants)
- The National Lottery Community Fund · £148,914 (2 grants)
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £85,569 (2 grants)
- Masonic Charitable Foundation · £60,000
- Alex Ferry Foundation · £24,000 (3 grants)
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.
6 trustees on the board
- Andrew Mark Carter Chair since 2023
- Dawn Hewitt since 2017
- Jenny Coles CBE since 2023
- Jessica Margaret Ann Costanzo since 2023
- Kevin Lawson-Mcnamara since 2023
- Sharon Knott since 2024
Trustees past 6 years
- Dawn Hewitt since 2017
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (3)
- Andrew Mark Carter Chair since 2023
- Dawn Hewitt since 2017
- Jessica Margaret Ann Costanzo since 2023
Portfolio (3)
- Jenny Coles CBE since 2023
- Kevin Lawson-Mcnamara since 2023
- Sharon Knott since 2024
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.
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
1.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 2.0 in 2021
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1179048
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 21 JUN 2018
- Companies House
- Company number 11427513 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 01525863924 · sue.clarke@chumscharity.org
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 18th October 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.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Report an issue · How we handle data