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The Abbeyfield Society

Registered charity 200719 Registered since 1962

Operates: Throughout England And Wales

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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.

10 trustees on the board

3.7y median 3.5y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

17.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

8
company-linked trustees

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 10Professional services 5Education 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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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.

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

Also active in the same field

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitewww.abbeyfield.com
Emailpost@abbeyfield.com
Phone01727857536
Address17-19 Hampton Lane, SOLIHULL, West Midlands, B91 2QT

Finances

£44,312,000 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£53,561,000£52,584,000
2022£47,087,030£63,875,345
2023£50,932,000£58,388,000
2024£53,128,000£68,941,000
2025£44,312,000£53,088,000

What it does

What

General Charitable PurposesEducation/trainingThe Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of LivesAccommodation/housing

Who

Elderly/old PeopleOther Charities Or Voluntary Bodies

How

Provides Buildings/facilities/open SpaceProvides ServicesProvides Advocacy/advice/information

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.

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

Trustees (10)

10trustees
64median age
1aged 70+

Linked company (Companies House)

Abbeyfield Society (the) · 00574816 · Active

PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital) · incorporated 27/11/1956

6 governing document(s) held from Companies House.

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