The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 12th July 2026

Gingerbread, the Charity for Single Parent Families

Registered charity 230750 Registered since 1964

Operates: Throughout England And Wales

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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
4.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

2
company-linked trustees

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

Agriculture 1Education 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.
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.

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

Also active in the same field

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitewww.gingerbread.org.uk
Emailinfo@gingerbread.org.uk
Phone02031006210
Address82 Tanner Street, London, SE1 3GN

Finances

£2,117,002 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£2,133,717£1,723,244
2022£1,831,010£2,090,993
2023£1,786,559£1,873,584
2024£2,508,058£2,165,929
2025£2,117,002£2,483,625

What it does

What

Education/trainingThe Prevention Or Relief Of PovertyEconomic/community Development/employment

Who

Children/young PeopleOther Defined Groups

How

Provides ServicesProvides Advocacy/advice/informationSponsors Or Undertakes Research

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.

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

Trustees (6)

6trustees
46median age
0aged 70+

Linked company (Companies House)

Gingerbread, the Charity for Single Parent Families · 00402748 · Active

PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital) · incorporated 04/01/1946

6 governing document(s) held from Companies House.

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