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Registered charity · Manchester

The Focus Foundation

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £1.6m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th 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
Where
Bury, Manchester City, Salford City
Linked company
The Focus Foundation
Registered
2021

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.6m£1.6m
  • 2024£1.8m£1.4m
  • 2023£852k£872k
Charitable objects

TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF PEOPLE WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES, PEOPLE ON THE AUTISITIC SPECTRUM AND PHYSICALLY DISABLED PEOPLE BY THE PROVISION OF SUPPORT AND CARE SO THAT SUCH PEOPLE CAN LIVE INDEPENDENT AND FULFILLING LIVES IN THE COMMUNITY.

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

4.1y median 5y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
15.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

Portfolio (2)

8
company-linked trustees

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

Disability 8Amateur Sport 1General 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.

Health and social care 13Property 7Education 6

Gaps to watch

  • 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 3 years.
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£1.6m 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.

2.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 0.2 in 2023

46 from 44 in 2023
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
1196884
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 13 JAN 2021AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 23 NOV 2021
Companies House
Company number 13131170 · Active
Contact on the register
01615234663 · sarahradivan@thefocusfoundation.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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