Registered charity (CIO) · Leicester
The George Townsend Charity
- 6 trustees
- Income £33k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources
Who leads it
- William Mark SimpsonChair
- Christopher Stuart Martin MitchellTrustee
- Danuta TaylorTrustee
- Denise AaronTrustee
- Edward Guy CufflinTrustee
- Simon Morford GravettTrustee
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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People on this board also serve on 5 other charities:
- Leicester AID in Sickness Fund · 3 shared trustees
- The Kate Holland Charitable Trust · 1 shared trustee
- Wyggeston School Foundation · 1 shared trustee
- Rotary Club of Leicester Trust Fund · 1 shared trustee
- Leicestershire Victoria County History Trust · 1 shared trustee
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About
- What it does
- Disability, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
- Where
- Leicestershire
- Registered
- 2024
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£33k£37k
- 2024£28k£18k
Charitable objects
(1) THE PROVISION OF SOCIAL HOUSING (?THE ALMSHOUSES?) PREFERABLY BUT NOT NECESSARILY AT AYLESTONE OR KIRBY MUXLOE IN THE COUNTY OF LEICESTERSHIRE FOR POOR WOMEN WHO ARE WIDOWS OR SPINSTERS OF 45 YEARS OR OVER (OR IF IN THE DISCRETION OF THE TRUSTEES EFFECT CANNOT BE GIVEN TO THAT PROVISION TO OR FOR THE BENEFIT OF POOR FEMALE DIVORCEES OF 45 YEARS OR OVER) AND ALWAYS SATISFYING THE PUBLIC BENEFIT REQUIREMENT UNDER THE CHARITIES ACT 2011. (2) IN THE COUNTY OF LEICESTERSHIRE THE MAKING OF GRANTS TO OR FOR THE BENEFIT FOR POOR WOMEN WHO ARE WIDOWS OR SPINSTERS OF 45 YEARS OR OVER (OR IF IN THE DISCRETION OF THE TRUSTEES EFFECT CANNOT BE GIVEN TO THAT PROVISION TO OR FOR THE BENEFIT OF POOR FEMALE DIVORCEES OF 45 YEARS OR OVER) IN THE PAYMENT OF THE COSTS OF THEIR RENTS OR OTHER HOUSING AND ACCOMMODATION COSTS EXCLUSIVELY FOR CHARITABLE PURPOSES AND ALWAYS SATISFYING THE PUBLIC BENEFIT REQUIREMENT UNDER THE CHARITIES ACT 2011.
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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
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (3)
Portfolio (3)
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
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.
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1206457
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 09 Jan 2024
- Contact on the register
- 01162222209 · trustadmin@charity-link.org
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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