The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 6th September 2026

The Gibbs Charitable Trusts

Registered charity 207997 Registered since 1962

Operates: Powys, Bristol City, Cardiff, Ghana, Kenya, Sierra Leone, Zambia, Zimbabwe, South Sudan

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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.

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

Education/training 12General Charitable Purposes 11The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 10Arts/culture/heritage/science 3Overseas Aid/famine Relief 2Religious Activities 1

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 4Health and social care 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.
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incomespending£102k latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025

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.

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Contact

Websitewww.gibbstrust.org.uk
Emailjamesgibbs@btinternet.com
Phone0117 9736615
Address8 VICTORIA SQUARE, BRISTOL, BS8 4ET

Finances

£101,756 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£100,849£94,846
2022£100,001£220,021
2023£101,825£166,243
2024£103,987£204,616
2025£101,756£203,301

What it does

What

General Charitable PurposesEducation/trainingThe Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of LivesThe Prevention Or Relief Of PovertyOverseas Aid/famine ReliefReligious ActivitiesArts/culture/heritage/science

Who

Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies

How

Makes Grants To Organisations

Charitable objects

FOR SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT, AND IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE TRUST), FOR SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES CONNECTED WITH THE METHODIST CHURCH IN TH UK OR ANY DEPARTMENT OF THE METHODIST CHURCH AS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT.

Governing document: DEEDS OF SETTLEMENT DATED 21ST OCTOBER 1946, 19TH FEBRUARY 1950, 21ST MAY 1957, 8TH AUGUST 1957, 15TH JUNE 1959, 13TH OCTOBER 1959 AND 12TH MAY 1961

Trustees (13)

13trustees
79median age
1aged 70+

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