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PEC Trust

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £3.1m (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 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, Accommodation/housing, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Cornwall, Devon, Plymouth City, Torbay
Website
www.plymouthenergycommunity.com (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
PEC Trust
Registered
2019

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£3.1m£2.5m
  • 2024£2.4m£2.3m
  • 2023£1.9m£1.8m
Earlier years
  • 2022£2.1m£1.5m
  • 2021£1.3m£1.1m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 47%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY THE:(A) PRESERVATION, CONSERVATION AND THE PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE PRUDENT USE OF RESOURCES; (B) RELIEF OF POVERTY AND THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF HEALTH BY PROMOTING THE EFFICIENT USE OF ENERGY AND UTILISATION OF RENEWABLE SOURCES OF ENERGY; AND(C) ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN SUBJECTS RELATING TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND THE PROTECTION, ENHANCEMENT AND REHABILITATION OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND TO PROMOTE STUDY AND RESEARCH IN SUCH SUBJECTS PROVIDED THAT THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH STUDY ARE DISSEMINATED TO THE PUBLIC AT LARGE.SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT MEANS DEVELOPMENT WHICH MEETS THE NEEDS OF THE PRESENT WITHOUT COMPROMISING THE ABILITY OF FUTURE GENERATIONS TO MEET THEIR OWN NEEDS.

Grants received

6 grants · £409,235 total

360Giving 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 National Lottery Community Fund · £384,020 (2 grants)
  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology · £18,245
  • Devon Community Foundation · £6,970 (3 grants)

Most recent

  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology £18,2452023-01-12
  • Devon Community Foundation £2,9702022-09-12
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £328,9052021-03-26
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £55,1152020-05-26
  • Devon Community Foundation £2,0002019-02-27
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

4.8y median 6y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

10.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (1)

10
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 11Accommodation/housing 10The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 10General Charitable Purposes 1Other 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.

Tech and media 10Utilities 5Professional services 3

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£3.1m 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.

1.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 3.3 in 2021

44
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
1183711
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 14 SEP 2018
Companies House
Company number 11569012 · Active
Contact on the register
01752304255 · support@plymouthenergycommunity.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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