Registered charity · Winchester
Winchester Charity for the Needy
- 4 trustees
Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 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
- The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
- Where
- Hampshire
- Registered
- 1969
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025--
- 2024--
- 2023£966£2k
Earlier years
- 2022£891£2k
- 2021£960£930
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Charitable objects
TO RELIEVE EITHER GENERALLY OR INDIVIDUALLY PERSONS RESIDENT IN THE CITY OF WINCHESTER WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS.
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.
4 trustees on the board
- Russell Gordon-Smith Chair since 2023
- Nicki Elks since 2017
- Robert Foster Young since 2012
- Vivian Achwal since 2022
Trustees past 6 years
- Nicki Elks since 2017
- Robert Foster Young since 2012
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (1)
- Russell Gordon-Smith Chair since 2023
Portfolio (3)
- Nicki Elks since 2017
- Robert Foster Young since 2012
- Vivian Achwal since 2022
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Gaps to watch
- No commercial or business experience on the board
- Several long-serving trustees could step down together
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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Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 204528
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- SCHEME OF 7 JULY 1969
- Contact on the register
- 02380813117 · winchesterwelfarecharities@gmail.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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