Registered charity (CIO) · Coventry
Underground Lights
- 8 trustees
- Income £78k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Professor Nadine HoldsworthChair · since 2022
- Benedict DavenportTrustee · since 2022
- Benita BelgroveTrustee · since 2024
- Dr Daniela EvansTrustee · since 2025
- Georgia Dee JajiTrustee · since 2024
- Simon Christopher KnowlesTrustee · since 2025
- Sophie HallTrustee · since 2023
- Tracy VilliersTrustee · since 2019
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- Disability
- Where
- Coventry City, Warwickshire
- Website
- undergroundlights.org (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 2018
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£78k£64k
- 2024£14k£66k
- 2023£62k£38k
Earlier years
- 2022£63k£48k
- 2021£37k£35k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Charitable objects
FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, PEOPLE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS AND/OR MENTAL DISTRESS IN THE COVENTRY, WARWICKSHIRE AND SURROUNDING AREA THROUGH THE PROVISION OF DRAMA/PERFORMING ARTS WORKSHOPS AND OTHER ACTIVITIES OR FORMS OF TRAINING/SUPPORT.
Grants received
6 grants · £137,639 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
- The Tudor Trust · £102,000 (3 grants)
- Postcode Local Trust · £20,772
- The National Lottery Community Fund · £9,867
- The Grocers' Charity · £5,000
Most recent
- Postcode Local Trust
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.
8 trustees on the board
- Professor Nadine Holdsworth Chair since 2022
- Benedict Davenport since 2022
- Benita Belgrove since 2024
- Dr Daniela Evans since 2025
- Georgia Dee Jaji since 2024
- Simon Christopher Knowles since 2025
- Sophie Hall since 2023
- Tracy Villiers since 2019
Trustees past 6 years
- Tracy Villiers since 2019
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (8)
- Professor Nadine Holdsworth Chair since 2022
- Benedict Davenport since 2022
- Benita Belgrove since 2024
- Dr Daniela Evans since 2025
- Georgia Dee Jaji since 2024
- Simon Christopher Knowles since 2025
- Sophie Hall since 2023
- Tracy Villiers since 2019
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Gaps to watch
- No commercial or business experience on the board
- Narrow spread of causes across the board
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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Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1179553
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 14 Aug 2018
- Contact on the register
- 07885964293 · info@undergroundlights.org
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 27th 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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