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Registered charity · Crawley

The Printing Charity

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £1.2m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th 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
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Accommodation/housing
Where
Throughout England And Wales, France, Scotland, Northern Ireland and more
Website
www.theprintingcharity.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1963

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.2m£3.5m
  • 2024£1.2m£3.3m
  • 2023£1.2m£3.0m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.1m£3.4m
  • 2021£1.3m£3.1m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

1 - THE RELIEF OF PRINTERS BEING AGED OR POOR OR DISTRESSED2- THE RELIEF OF PERSONS WHO ARE OR WERE DEPENDENT UPON PRINTERS SUCH AS WIDOWS, WIDOWERS, PARENTS OR CHILDREN BEING THEMSELVES AGED OR IN DISTRESS AND IN NEED OF RELIEF3- THE EDUCATION OF PRINTERS AND AND THOSE WISHING TO BECOME PRINTER4- THE EDUCATION OF THE CHILDREN OF PRINTERS.WHERE:(I)              THE TERM 'PRINTER' HEREIN REFERS TO PERSONS WHO ARE OR WERE EMPLOYED IN THE PRINTING OR ALLIED TRADES AND STUDENTS THEREOF; AND(II)             THE TERM 'THE PRINTING AND ALLIED TRADES' HEREIN REFERS, IN THE DISCRETION OF THE TRUSTEES, TO THE CREATION BY PHYSICAL OR ELECTRONIC METHODS OF WORDS AND GRAPHICS WHICH SUPPORT SUCH CREATION.

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.

9 trustees on the board

3.9y median 3y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

6.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

Portfolio (1)

3
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 9General Charitable Purposes 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.

Finance 7Education 3Other services 3

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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£1.2m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2023 and 2024
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.

120.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months

19 from 19 in 2020
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
208882
Status
Registered
Governing document
ROYAL CHARTER GRANTED 03/01/1865AS AMENDED BY SUPPLEMENTAL CHARTER DATED 03/01/1952AS AMENDED BY SUPPLEMENTAL CHARTER DATED 23/10/1972AS AMENDED ON 07/10/1865AS AMENDED ON 03/01/1996AS AMENDED BY ORDER IN COUNCIL DATED 18/05/2004AS AMENDED BY ORDER IN COUNCIL DATED 29/06/2011AS AMENDED BY SUPPLEMENTAL CHARTER DATED 14/07/2014
Contact on the register
01293 542820 · info@theprintingcharity.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
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