The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 6th September 2026

Reading Dispensary Trust

Registered charity 203943 Registered since 1983

Operates: West Berkshire, Reading, Wokingham

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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.

9 trustees on the board

4.8y median 4.5y
average tenure
10y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

10.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

3
company-linked trustees

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

Disability 9The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 9The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 9

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 2Arts and leisure 1Education 1

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£54k latest income

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.readingdispensarytrust.org.uk
Emailtheclerk@readingdispensarytrust.org.uk
Phone01189265698
AddressReading Dispensary Trust, 16 Wokingham Road, Reading, RG6 1JQ

Finances

£54,351 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£50,479£51,360
2022£50,652£49,937
2023£50,652£49,937
2024£58,406£58,633
2025£54,351£50,356

What it does

What

The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of LivesDisabilityThe Prevention Or Relief Of PovertyAccommodation/housing

Who

Children/young PeopleElderly/old PeoplePeople With DisabilitiesOther Charities Or Voluntary Bodies

How

Makes Grants To IndividualsMakes Grants To Organisations

Charitable objects

THE PURPOSE OF RELIEVING EITHER GENERALLY OR INDIVIDUALLY IN CASES OF NEED PERSONS RESIDENT IN THE BOROUGH OF READING AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD THEREOF WHO ARE SICK, CONVALESCENT, DISABLED, HANDICAPPED OR INFIRM BY PROVIDING OR PAYING FOR ITEMS, SERVICES OR FACILITIES WHICH ARE CALCULATED TO ALLEVIATE THE SUFFERING OR ASSIST THE RECOVERY OF SUCH PERSONS IN SUCH CASES BUT ARE NOT READILY AVAILABLE TO THEM FROM OTHER SOURCES.

Governing document: SCHEME OF 31ST DECEMBER 1975

Trustees (9)

9trustees
80median age
2aged 70+

Connected charities (0)

No charities share a trustee (from current data).

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