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Registered charity (CIO) · London

The Distillers' Charity

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £539k (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
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Disability, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty and 1 more
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Registered
2021

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£539k£1.6m
  • 2024£2.4m£1.5m
  • 2023£1.3m£1.5m
Earlier years
  • 2022£3.2m£893k
  • 2021£0£22k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE (1) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF BENEFICIARIES INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO PROVIDING ACCESS TO TRAINING, EDUCATION OR WORK EXPERIENCE TO SUPPORT BENEFICIARIES IN DEVELOPING THEIR KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS (INCLUDING ENCOURAGING HIGH STANDARDS OF DISTILLING PRACTICE), IN PARTICULAR FOR THOSE WHO WOULD NOT OTHERWISE HAVE ACCESS TO SUCH OPPORTUNITIES. (2) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY (IN PARTICULAR AMONGST THOSE WHO HAVE WORKED IN THE DISTILLING AND ASSOCIATED TRADES) AND THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS. (3) TO SUPPORT YOUNG PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY FROM DISADVANTAGED BACKGROUNDS AND DEPRIVED AREAS, BY ALL CHARITABLE MEANS, TO REACH THEIR FULL POTENTIAL, AND DEVELOP THEIR CAPABILITIES, COMPETENCES, SKILLS AND UNDERSTANDING SO THAT THEY CAN MAKE A POSITIVE CONTRIBUTION TO THEIR COMMUNITY AND THE WIDER WORLD.(4) TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC GENERALLY INCLUDING MAKING GRANTS FOR THE GENERAL PURPOSES OF SUCH CHARITIES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE.

Grants received

1 grant · £300,000 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

  • William Grant Foundation · £300,000

Most recent

  • William Grant Foundation £300,0002023-06-14
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.

8 trustees on the board

2.9y median 3y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
11y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (1)

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 8General Charitable Purposes 8Disability 7The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 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.

Other services 5Business services 3Education 2

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£539k latest income
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.

10.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 17.9 in 2021

0
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
1193683
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 03 Mar 2021
Contact on the register
07721 249846 · office@distillers.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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