Registered charity · Shifnal
The United NON-Ecclesiastical Charities
- 6 trustees
- Income £4k (2025)
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
- Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Accommodation/housing
- Where
- Shropshire
- Registered
- 1963
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£4k£4k
- 2024£4k£21k
- 2023£6k£9k
Earlier years
- 2022£7k£10k
- 2021£6k£10k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Charitable objects
APPLICATION OF INCOME.DIVISION INTO MOIETIES. - SUBJECT AS AFORESAID, THE SAID CLEAR YEARLY INCOME SHALL BE DIVIDED BY THE TRUSTEES INTO TWO EQUAL MOIETIES.APPRENTICING - THE TRUSTEES OF THE UNITED CHARITIES SHALL APPLY ONE OF THE SAID MOIETIES SO FAR AS USEFULLY MAY BE IN APPRENTICING POOR CHILDREN RESIDENT WITHIN THE AREA OF BENEFIT TO SOME TRADE OR OCCUPATION. IN SO FAR AS THE SAID TRUSTEES CANNOT USEFULLY APPLY THE SAID MOIETY IN MANNER AFORESAID, THEY MAY APPLY THE SAME FOR THE ASSISTANCE OF ANY PERSONS RESIDENT AS AFORESAID, BEING UNDER THE AGE OF 21 YEARS, ON ENTERING UPON, OR TO ENABLE THEM TO PREPARE FOR, A TRADE, OCCUPATION, OR SERVICE, BY OUTFITS, PAYMENT OF FEES FOR INSTRUCTION, PAYMENT OF TRAVELLING EXPENSES, OR OTHERWISE, OR BY SUCH OTHER MEANS FOR THEIR ADVANCEMENT IN LIFE, OR TO ENABLE THEM TO EARN THEIR OWN LIVING, AS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT.GENERAL BENEFIT OF THE POOR - THE TRUSTEES OF THE UNITED CHARITIES SHALL APPLY THE OTHER OF THE SAID MOIETIES FOR THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT BY PROVIDING: GRANTS, ITEMS AND SERVICES TO INDIVIDUALS IN NEED AND/OR CHARITIES, OR OTHER ORGANISATIONS WORKING TO PREVENT OR RELIEVE POVERTY.
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.
6 trustees on the board
- Douglas Steven Mccowan since 2014
- Dr Gill Bradley
- Helen Colette Owen since 2011
- Mark Henry Arnold Weston since 2014
- Richard Laurence Viggers since 2016
- The Earl of Bradford Richard Thomas Orlando Bridgeman
Trustees past 6 years
- Douglas Steven Mccowan since 2014
- Helen Colette Owen since 2011
- Mark Henry Arnold Weston since 2014
- Richard Laurence Viggers since 2016
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (5)
- Douglas Steven Mccowan since 2014
- Dr Gill Bradley
- Helen Colette Owen since 2011
- Mark Henry Arnold Weston since 2014
- Richard Laurence Viggers since 2016
Portfolio (1)
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
- 215331
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- SCHEME DATED 16/01/1914AS AMENDED BY SCHEME DATED 12/09/1963AS AMENDED BY SCHEME DATED 07 OCT 2024
- Contact on the register
- 01952850448
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 27th 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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