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Registered charity · Cambridgeshire

The Papworth Trust

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £15m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

Also 1 organisation acting as trustee: Adam Stewart Towle.

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Education/training, Disability, Accommodation/housing
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.papworthtrust.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Papworth Trust
Registered
1963

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£15m£14m
  • 2024£15m£13m
  • 2023£15m£14m
Earlier years
  • 2022£15m£14m
  • 2021£13m£12m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 47%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECT OF THE CHARITY IS TO PROVIDE RELIEF TO DISABLED PEOPLE, INCLUDING THE PROVISION OF SOCIAL HOUSING, IN SUCH WAYS THAT ARE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC AND ARE CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO ENGLISH LAW. 4.2 FOR THE PURPOSES OF PROVIDING SUCH RELIEF, THE CHARITY WILL, IN ANY WAYS THAT THE BOARD THINKS FIT, PROVIDE ALL SUCH SERVICES AND FACILITIES AS ARE REQUIRED; CONTRIBUTE TO RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS; AND PROMOTE THE ENTITLEMENT OF DISABLED PEOPLE TO EQUALITY, CHOICE AND INDEPENDENCE.

Grants received

24 grants · £4,398,798 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

Most recent

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.

11 trustees on the board

4.1y median 4y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

6.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (1)

9
company-linked trustees

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

Accommodation/housing 11Disability 11Education/training 11

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 10Construction 9Health and social care 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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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.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£14.5m latest income · income exceeded spending 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.

23.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 5.8 in 2021

225 from 232 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.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
211234
Status
Registered
Governing document
INCORPORATED 16/11/1917AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 25/06/1958AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 17/05/1960AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 10/07/1974AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 03/01/1989AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 27/10/1993AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 31/08/1994AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 18/11/2010 as amended on 27 Aug 2021 as amended on 28 Oct 2021 as amended on 03 Oct 2022 as amended on 03 Oct 2022
Companies House
Company number 00148906 · Active
Contact on the register
01480357200 · info@papworthtrust.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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