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Registered charity (CIO) · Derby

First Steps ED

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £1.4m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

Also 3 organisations acting as trustee: Clare Fleming, Eric Johnson-Sabine, Stephen Mcgowan.

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

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Other Charitable Purposes
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.firststepsed.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2019

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.4m£1.4m
  • 2024£1.4m£1.2m
  • 2023£937k£881k
Earlier years
  • 2022£574k£607k
  • 2021£545k£627k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 84%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

1. THE RELIEF OF INDIVIDUALS OF ALL AGES (AND THEIR FAMILIES) WHOSE LIVES ARE AFFECTED BY DIAGNOSED AND UNDIAGNOSED EATING DIFFICULTIES AND DISORDERS AND OTHER MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES BY PROVIDING INFORMATION, ADVICE AND SUPPORT.2. THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH OF FAMILIES AND CARERS OF THOSE SUFFERING FROM EATING DISORDERS AND OTHER MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES BY PROVIDING INFORMATION AND SUPPORT.3. TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PROVIDING TRAINING FOR CARERS, PROFESSIONALS AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC OF PEOPLE SUFFERING FROM EATING DISORDERS, AND OTHER MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES.

Grants received

3 grants · £98,416 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.

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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.

7 trustees on the board

3y median 3y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
4.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

2
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 7General Charitable Purposes 7The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 7

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

Health and social care 5Hospitality 1Property 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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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£1.4m 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.

5.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months

39 from 14 in 2021
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
1185092
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - ASSOCIATION Registered 29 Aug 2019 as amended on 01 Dec 2020
Contact on the register
03001021685 · info@firststepsed.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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