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Registered charity (CIO) · Manchester

Beam

  • 5 trustees
  • Income £6k (2024)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 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
Other Charitable Purposes
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.beam.support (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2020

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£6k£10k
  • 2023£17k£13k
  • 2022£7k£8k
Earlier years
  • 2021£8k£6k
  • 2020£4k£2k

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Income source mix, 2022: Government grants 20%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO RELIEVE THE NEED OF BIRTH MOTHERS WHOSE CHILDREN DO NOT LIVE PERMANENTLY IN THEIR CARE THROUGH THE PROVISION OF CONFIDENTIAL SUPPORT GROUP MEETINGS, ONE TO ONE MEETINGS, TELEPHONE AND ONLINE SUPPORT AND RAISING AWARENESS OF THE PROBLEMS FACING BIRTH MOTHERS.

Grants received

2 grants · £250,778 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

  • Comic Relief · £250,000
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £778

Most recent

  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £7782020-09-09
  • Comic Relief £250,0002018-09-25
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.

5 trustees on the board

2.6y median 1y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
3.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (4)

Portfolio (1)

0
company-linked trustees

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

Other Charitable Purposes 5Education/training 1

Gaps to watch

  • No commercial or business experience on the board
  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£6k latest income

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1187918
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 12 Feb 2020
Contact on the register
01473760800 · hello@beam.support
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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