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Registered charity (CIO) · Colne

Peter Birtwistle Trust

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £524k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th 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
Disability, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Where
Lancashire
Website
peterbirtwistletrust.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2019

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£524k£450k
  • 2024£470k£317k
  • 2023£424k£350k
Earlier years
  • 2022£380k£250k
  • 2021£342k£214k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE: THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY BY THE PROVISION OF SOCIAL HOUSING IN THE FORM OF ALMSHOUSE ACCOMMODATION FOR POOR PERSONS WHO ARE AGED 60 YEARS OR OVER AND WHO (EXCEPT IN SPECIAL CASES TO BE APPROVED BY THE CHARITY COMMISSION) WERE EITHER BORN IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT, OR HAVE RESIDED IN THE SAID AREA FOR NOT LESS THAN TEN YEARS. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS CLAUSE THE AREA OF BENEFIT IS THE TOWN OF COLNE AS CONSTITUTED ON 27TH MAY 1918.

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.

11 trustees on the board

17.2y median 10y
average tenure
46y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

18.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (1)

3
company-linked trustees

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

Disability 11The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 11General Charitable Purposes 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.

Arts and leisure 2Other services 2Health and social care 1

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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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£524k latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025
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.

17.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months

4
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
1183388
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - FOUNDATION REGISTERED 13 MAY 2019AMENDED ON 23 SEP 2020
Contact on the register
01282864233 · info@peterbirtwistletrust.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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