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Registered charity · Birmingham

Bournville Village Trust

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £37m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources

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
Disability, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Accommodation/housing, Environment/conservation/heritage and 1 more
Where
Birmingham City, Shropshire, Worcestershire
Website
bvt.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1963

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£37m£32m
  • 2024£39m£30m
  • 2023£32m£29m
Earlier years
  • 2022£49m£26m
  • 2021£37m£26m
Charitable objects

THE AMELIORATION OF THE CONDITION OF THE WORKING-CLASS AND LABOURING POPULATION IN AND AROUND BIRMINGHAM AND ELSEWHERE IN GREAT BRITAIN BY THE PROVISIONS OF IMPROVED DWELLINGS WITH GARDENS AND OPEN SPACES TO BE ENJOYED THEREWITH, AND BY GIVING THEM FACILITIES FOR PURCHASING OR ACQUIRING THE NECESSARIES OF LIFE. (FOR FURTHER DETAILS SEE ABOVE, DEED OF FOUNDATION DATED 14TH DECEMBER 1900).

Board analysis for researchers

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.

8 trustees on the board

6.2y median 5y
average tenure
15y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (4)

Portfolio (4)

2
company-linked trustees

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

Disability 8The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 7Accommodation/housing 6Amateur Sport 1Education/training 1General Charitable Purposes 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.

Business services 1Construction 1Health 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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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£38.7m latest income · income exceeded spending 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.

25.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 7.2 in 2020

232 from 257 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
219260
Status
Registered
Governing document
DEED OF FOUNDATION OF THE 14 DECEMBER 1900, DEED OF VARIATION OF TRUSTS OF THE 31 DECEMBER 1920 AND 27 OCTOBER 2003. SCHEMES OF THE 15 AUGUST 1947 AND 30 NOVEMBER 1965.AS AMENDED BY RESOLUTION DATED 20 MAR 2017 AS AMENDED ON 11 JUN 2021AS AMENDED BY RESOLUTION DATED 11 JUN 2021
Contact on the register
03003336540 · enquiries@bvt.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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