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Registered charity · Bournemouth

Abbeyfield Wessex Society Limited

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £7.1m (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
Accommodation/housing
Where
Dorset, Hampshire, Bournemouth, Poole and more
Website
www.abbeyfieldwessex.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Abbeyfield Wessex Society Limited
Registered
1963

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£7.1m£6.5m
  • 2024£6.3m£2.4m
  • 2022£1.7m£1.5m
Earlier years
  • 2021£1.4m£1.4m
  • 2020£1.8m£1.4m

Income trend, 2020 to 2025.

Charitable objects

THE SOCIETY IS ESTABLISHED FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT FOR THE FOLLOWING OBJECTS:1.1 THE SUPPORT AND CARE OF ELDERLY PERSONS OF ALL CLASSES, BELIEFS AND NATIONALITIES SUFFERING FROM LONELINESS AND THE DISABILITIES OF OLD AGE OR OTHERWISE IN NEED.1.2 THE SPREADING OF CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLES TO ALL HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS AND THE APPLICATION OF HUMANITARIAN AIMS TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF THE ELDERLY.1.3 TO PROVIDE FURTHER EDUCATION IN THE SPHERE OF VOLUNTARY WORK, SOCIAL WORK AND SIMILAR ACTIVITIES SO AS TO INCULCATE THE PRINCIPLES OF GOOD CITIZENSHIP.1.4 THE PROVISION AND ARRANGEMENTS OF HOUSING, ACCOMMODATION OR ASSISTANCE, INCLUDING PROVIDING AND MAINTAINING OR ASSISTING IN PROVIDING AND MAINTAINING HOUSES AND HOMES, FOR THE RELIEF AND CARE OF ELDERLY PERSONS SUFFERING FROM LONELINESS AND THE DISABILITIES OF OLD AGE OR OTHERWISE BEING IN NEED.1.5 SUCH OTHER PURPOSES RECOGNISED BY ENGLISH LAW AS CHARITABLE AS THE SOCIETY SHALL DETERMINE FROM TIME TO TIME.

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.

8 trustees on the board

3.9y median 2.5y
average tenure
12y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

12.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

8
company-linked trustees

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

Accommodation/housing 8

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

Hospitality 7Education 3Health and social care 3

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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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.
2020
2021
2022
2024
2025
incomespending£7.1m 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.

26.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 88.0 in 2020

67 from 36 in 2020
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
230902
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION DATED 25/3/1963 AND AMENDED ON 9 MARCH 2004. as amended on 28 Jul 2025
Companies House
Company number 00754594 · Active
Contact on the register
01202762051 · info@abbeyfieldwessex.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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