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Registered charity · York

The General Service Board of Alcoholics Anonymous (Great Britain) Limited

  • 24 trustees
  • Income £2.2m (2025)
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About

What it does
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland
Website
www.alcoholics-anonymous.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The General Service Board of Alcoholics Anonymous (Great Britain) Limited
Registered
1969

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£2.2m£2.1m
  • 2024£1.8m£2.1m
  • 2023£1.8m£1.9m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.9m£1.8m
  • 2021£1.3m£1.2m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2021: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO HELP CHRONIC ALCOHOLICS TO OVERCOME THEIR ADDICTION TO ALCOHOL AND TO SERVE THE FELLOWSHIP KNOWN AS ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS IN SUCH OF ITS WORK OF ASSISTING ALCOHOLICS TO ACHIEVE SOBRIETY.

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.

1.4y median 1y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
5y
average years in governance
19
company-linked trustees

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

The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 24

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 20Finance 5Business services 1

Gaps to watch

  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

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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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£2.2m latest income
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.

14.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 16.6 in 2021

21 from 20 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
226745
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 16 JULY 1957 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS DATED 20 JUNE 1980, 23 MARCH 1991, 26 MARCH 1994, 28 FEBRUARY 2003, 18 MARCH 2005 AND 5 FEBRUARY 2010.
Companies House
Company number 00587316 · Active
Contact on the register
01904644026 · aainformation@gsogb.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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