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Registered charity · London

Gingerbread, the Charity for Single Parent Families

  • 6 trustees
  • Income £1.5m (2026)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 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
Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Economic/community Development/employment
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.gingerbread.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Gingerbread, the Charity for Single Parent Families
Registered
1964

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2026£1.5m£959k
  • 2025£2.1m£2.5m
  • 2024£2.5m£2.2m
Earlier years
  • 2023£1.8m£1.9m
  • 2022£1.8m£2.1m

Income trend, 2022 to 2026.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 11%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PREVENT OR RELIEVE POVERTY AND DISADVANTAGE AND TO PROMOTE FAIR AND EQUAL TREATMENT AND OPPORTUNITY AMONG SINGLE PARENTS AND THEIR CHILDREN, AND TO PROMOTE AND PROTECT THEIR WELL-BEING THROUGH THE PROVISION OF INFORMATION, ADVICE, EDUCATION, TRAINING AND OTHER SERVICES: THE CONDUCTING, COMMISSIONING AND PUBLICATION OF RESEARCH: AND THE RAISING OF AWARENESS THROUGH PUBLICATIONS, USE OF THE MEDIA, PUBLIC ADVOCACY AND OTHER MEANS OF COMMUNICATION. FOR THESE PURPOSES A SINGLE PARENT MEANS AN ADULT WHO IS THE MAIN CARER FOR ONE OR MORE DEPENDENT CHILDREN WITHOUT A PARTNER IN THE SAME HOUSEHOLD.

Grants received

50 grants · £6,758,457 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.

Top funders

  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £3,683,043 (17 grants)
  • HM Revenue & Customs · £655,919 (4 grants)
  • City Bridge Trust · £408,000 (3 grants)
  • Sport England · £389,287
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £350,998

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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.

6 trustees on the board

1.7y median 2y
average tenure
2y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
5.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

6
company-linked trustees

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

Economic/community Development/employment 6Education/training 6The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 6

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

Tech and media 6Agriculture 1Education 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.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£2.1m 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.

0.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 6.2 in 2021

40 from 27 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
230750
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 04/01/1976AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 16/01/1971AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 12/06/1973AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 06/07/1973AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 25/11/1983AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 24/11/1999AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 21/11/2002AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 13/08/2010AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 14/06/2013AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 25/07/2013 as amended on 11 Dec 2025
Companies House
Company number 00402748 · Active
Contact on the register
02031006210 · info@gingerbread.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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