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Registered charity · Cheltenham

National Star Foundation

  • 13 trustees
  • Income £50m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th 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
Education/training, Disability, Accommodation/housing
Where
East Sussex, Gloucestershire, Warwickshire, Torfaen and more
Website
www.nationalstar.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
National Star Foundation
Registered
1963

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£50m£47m
  • 2024£43m£42m
  • 2023£40m£39m
Earlier years
  • 2022£36m£36m
  • 2021£32m£31m
Charitable objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF AND RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF DISABLED PEOPLE TO ENABLE THEM TO REALISE THEIR POTENTIAL AS EQUAL AND ACTIVE CITIZENS IN CONTROL OF THEIR LIVES.

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.

13 trustees on the board

2.4y median 2y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
7.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (3)

13
company-linked trustees

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

Disability 13Accommodation/housing 12Education/training 12General Charitable Purposes 1The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 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.

Education 14Other services 7Health and social care 2

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£49.6m 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.

1.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 2.0 in 2021

1269 from 1109 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.
93%
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
220239
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 20/08/1953AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 15/10/1964AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 02/12/1966AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 09/07/1970AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 26/11/1993NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 09/01/2012AND REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 14/03/2012AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 14/03/2012 as amended on 17 Feb 2023
Companies House
Company number 00522846 · Active
Contact on the register
01242527631 · enquiries@nationalstar.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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