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Registered charity · Leatherhead

Wates Foundation Limited

  • 6 trustees
  • Income £598k (2024)

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
General Charitable Purposes
Where
Throughout England
Website
www.watesfoundation.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Wates Foundation Limited
Registered
2023

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£598k£479k
  • 2023£0£0

Income trend, 2023 to 2024.

Charitable objects

THE TRUST FUND AND INCOME IS HELD BY THE TRUSTEE UPON TRUST TO APPLY THE SAME FOR OR TOWARDS SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES OR CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES AT SUCH TIME AND IN SUCH MANNER AS THE TRUSTEE SHALL IN ITS UNCONTROLLED DISCRETION DETERMINE.

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.

6 trustees on the board

2.7y median 2y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
19.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (5)

Portfolio (1)

6
company-linked trustees

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

General Charitable Purposes 6Disability 1Education/training 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 9Professional services 9Education 8

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 2 years.
2023
2024
incomespending£598k 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.

120.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months

4
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
1202779
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 22 DEC 1981
Companies House
Company number 01605766 · Active
Contact on the register
01372861000 · tracy.snelling@wates.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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