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Registered charity · Eastleigh

B&Q Foundation

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £2.8m (2026)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Accommodation/housing, Economic/community Development/employment
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
bqfoundation.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
B&Q Foundation
Registered
2019

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2026£2.8m£1.9m
  • 2025£2.2m£2.2m
  • 2024£2.2m£2.3m
Earlier years
  • 2023£1.9m£2.3m
  • 2022£1.7m£1.3m

Income trend, 2022 to 2026.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, TO RELIEVE THOSE IN NEED ACROSS THE UK AND THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND BECAUSE OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, ILL-HEALTH, DISABILITY OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE, IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION) BY MAKING GRANTS TO REGISTERED CHARITIES WHO ARE PROVIDING, MAINTAINING, REPAIRING AND IMPROVING HOUSING AND COMMUNITY SPACES, AND PROVIDING HOUSING ADVICE AND SUPPORT.

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

3y median 2y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

4.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

8
company-linked trustees

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

Accommodation/housing 9Economic/community Development/employment 9The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 9

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

Property 9Other services 8Business services 1

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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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£2.2m latest income
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.

0.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 4.8 in 2021

0
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
1183275
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 08 MAR 2019AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 01 MAY 2019 as amended on 10 Mar 2020
Companies House
Company number 11868617 · Active
Contact on the register
02380690000 · B&QFoundation@b-and-q.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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