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Registered charity (CIO) · London

Access Your Right to Care

  • 7 trustees
  • Income £2.8m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources

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
Disability, Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity
Where
Throughout England
Website
accesscharity.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2019

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£2.8m£2.4m
  • 2024£2.5m£2.0m
  • 2023£1.7m£1.5m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.7m£1.2m
  • 2021£1.4m£738k
Charitable objects

THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED BY REASON OF YOUTH, AGE, ILL HEALTH, DISABILITY OR FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, THROUGHOUT THE UNITED KINGDOM, BY:A) PROVIDING LEGAL AND OTHER ADVISORY REPRESENTATION AND INFORMATION SERVICES TO PEOPLE WHO COULD NOT OTHERWISE OBTAIN THEM THROUGH LACK OF MEANS OR BECAUSE OF ANOTHER VULNERABILITY (INCLUDING COMMUNICATION NEEDS).B) PROVIDING LEGAL EDUCATION TO THOSE WORKING IN THE SOCIAL CARE SECTOR AND THOSE IN RECEIPT OF SOCIAL CARE SO THEY ARE BETTER EQUIPPED TO IDENTIFY AND ADDRESS LEGAL ISSUES SHOULD THEY ARISE.C) RAISING AWARENESS ON TRENDS OF ONGOING UNLAWFUL BEHAVIOUR WHICH IS IDENTIFIED THROUGH ACCESS YOUR RIGHT TO CARE'S LEGAL WORK.

Board analysis for researchers

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

2.4y median 2y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

11.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (4)

Portfolio (3)

5
company-linked trustees

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

Disability 6Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity 5Education/training 3Economic/community Development/employment 1General Charitable Purposes 1The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 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.

Health and social care 14Tech and media 3Business 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£2.8m 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.

1.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 3.8 in 2021

40 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
1186714
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 03 Dec 2019
Contact on the register
07899090360 · Kari.gerstheimer@accesscharity.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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