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Prison Advice and Care Trust (Pact)

  • 13 trustees
  • Income £9.8m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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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 Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty and 1 more
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
prisonadvice.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Prison Advice and Care Trust (Pact)
Registered
1963

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£9.8m£10m
  • 2024£10m£11m
  • 2023£8.1m£9.5m
Earlier years
  • 2022£6.3m£7.0m
  • 2021£8.6m£6.5m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 63% · Government grants 7%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

1. TO PROVIDE ADVICE, INFORMATION AND SUPPORT TO PEOPLE WHO ARE SUFFERING OR WHO HAVE SUFFERED A LEGAL RESTRICTION ON THEIR LIBERTY IN ANY PENAL OR CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION.2. TO PROVIDE ADVICE, INFORMATION AND SUPPORT TO FAMILIES AND CHILDREN OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE SUFFERING OR WHO HAVE SUFFERED A LEGAL RESTRICTION ON THEIR LIBERTY IN ANY PENAL OR CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION.3. TO WORK FOR THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND SICKNESS AND ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING FOR OFFENDERS, EX-OFFENDERS, THEIR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN.

Grants received

65 grants · £5,482,055 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.

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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.

13 trustees on the board

3.6y median 4y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (13)

10
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 13General Charitable Purposes 13The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 13

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Health and social care 13Professional services 3Tech and media 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.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£9.8m latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

1.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 1.7 in 2021

414 from 178 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.
70%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
219278
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 1/9/1939 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS OF 11/10/1965 AND 5/7/1966 AND A CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION DATED 20/7/1973, AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 18/4/2000 as amended on 17 May 2023 as amended on 17 May 2023
Companies House
Company number 00356443 · Active
Contact on the register
02077359535 · info@prisonadvice.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
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