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The Upholders Charity

  • 5 trustees
  • Income £137k (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 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
Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Linked company
The Upholders Charity
Registered
2019

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£137k£114k
  • 2024£48k£36k
  • 2023£37k£18k
Earlier years
  • 2022£31k£19k
  • 2021£141k£24k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION; ANDTHE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY;GENERALLY AND IN PARTICULAR, FOR THE BENEFIT OF INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANISATIONS INVOLVED, OR PREVIOUSLY INVOLVED IN TRADE CRAFTS INCLUDING THE UPHOLSTERY TRADE, MAINLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY WAY OF BURSARIES, GRANTS, AWARDS AND PRIZES TO INDIVIDUALS AND EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS, WORLDWIDE AND PARTICULARLY IN THE CITY OF LONDON; ANDSUCH OTHER EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE.

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

6y median 8y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

22.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (3)

Portfolio (2)

5
company-linked trustees

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

Education/training 5The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 4Environment/conservation/heritage 1General Charitable Purposes 1Religious Activities 1

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

Education 9Finance 7Manufacturing 5

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£48k latest income · income exceeded spending in 2023 and 2024

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1181669
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 15 JAN 2019
Companies House
Company number 11767681 · Active
Contact on the register
01737 553962 · charity2018@upholders.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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