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Registered charity · West Midlands

The Abbeyfield Society

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £44m (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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Public contracts won

1 contract

From Contracts Finder and Find a Tender, the UK Government's public procurement notices, under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Matched to this organisation by company number, charity number or exact name and postcode; every figure links to its source notice.

About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Accommodation/housing
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.abbeyfield.com (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Abbeyfield Society
Registered
1962

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£44m£53m
  • 2024£53m£69m
  • 2023£51m£58m
Earlier years
  • 2022£47m£64m
  • 2021£54m£53m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 17%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

1 THE RELIEF AND CARE OF ELDERLY PERSONS OF ALL CLASSES, BELIEFS AND NATIONALITIES SUFFERING FROM THE DISABILITIES OF OLD AGE OR OTHERWISE IN NEED.2 THE SPREADING OF CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLES TO ALL HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS AND THE APPLICATION OF HUMANITARIAN AIMS TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF THE ELDERLY.3 TO PROVIDE FURTHER EDUCATION IN THE SPHERE OF VOLUNTARY WORK, SOCIAL WORK AND SIMILAR ACTIVITIES SO AS TO INCULCATE THE PRINCIPLES OF GOOD CITIZENSHIP.4 THE PROVISION AND MANAGEMENT OF HOUSING, ACCOMMODATION OR ASSISTANCE, INCLUDING PROVIDING AND MAINTAINING OR ASSISTING IN, PROVIDING AND MAINTAINING HOUSES AND HOMES, FOR THE RELIEF AND CARE OF ELDERLY PERSONS SUFFERING FROM THE DISABILITIES OF OLD AGE OR OTHERWISE BEING IN NEED. 5 SUCH OTHER PURPOSES RECOGNISED BY ENGLISH LAW AS CHARITABLE AS THE SOCIETY SHALL DETERMINE FROM TIME TO TIME.

Grants received

6 grants · £1,887,143 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

  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities · £1,546,787 (2 grants)
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £264,944
  • Vivensa Foundation · £45,000
  • Department for Work and Pensions · £30,412 (2 grants)

Most recent

  • Department for Work and Pensions £23,3802022-04-01
  • Department for Work and Pensions £7,0312021-04-01
  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities £1,101,9942020-04-01
  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities £444,7932020-04-01
  • Vivensa Foundation £45,0002018-12-10
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

3.1y median 3.5y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
16.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

8
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 8The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 8

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Finance 10Hospitality 8Education 4

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.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£44.3m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025
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.

21.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 2.3 in 2021

738 from 1099 in 2021
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
200719
Status
Registered
Governing document
INCORPORATED 27/11/1956NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 22/09/2010AS REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 20/12/2010NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 12/09/2012 as amended on 05 Sep 2019 as amended on 15 Sep 2022
Companies House
Company number 00574816 · Active
Contact on the register
01727857536 · post@abbeyfield.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th 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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