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Registered charity · Colchester

William Berman's Trust

  • 7 trustees
  • Income £197k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Accommodation/housing
Where
Essex
Registered
1964

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£197k£110k
  • 2024£185k£152k
  • 2023£174k£150k
Earlier years
  • 2022£154k£109k
  • 2021£150k£105k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

1. ALMSHOUSES FOR TWELVE POOR WOMEN OF GOOD CONDUCT EITHER WIDOWS OR UNMARRIED WHO SHALL BE OF THE AGE OF 50 YEARS AT LEAST. 2. TO DISLODGED ALMSWOMEN IN BASING SQUARE WHO DECLINE APPOINTMENT IN PRESENT ALMSHOUSES. A SUM NOT EXCEEDING 12 SHILLINGS PER WEEK. 3. STIPEND TO ALMSWOMEN NOT EXCEEDING 12 SHILLINGS WEEKLY. 4. ANY RESIDUE TO (A) ASSISTANCE TO MINISTERS OF RELIGION (B) ASSISTANCE OF CANDIDATES TRAINING FR THE MINISTRY (C) SUPPORT OF ORPHANAGES OR SIMILAR INSTITUTIONS (D) THE RELIEF OF PERSONS SUFFERING FROM INCURABLE OR CHRONIC DECEASE (E) RELIEF NOT EXCEEDING ·100 IN ANY ONE YEAR OF PERSONS IN URGENT NEED WHOM THE TRUSTEES CONSIDER DESERVING OF EXCEPTIONAL AID

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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.

7 trustees on the board

6.2y median 6.5y
average tenure
11y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (5)

Portfolio (2)

0
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 7The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 7Education/training 1General Charitable Purposes 1

Gaps to watch

  • No commercial or business experience on 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£197k latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
236697
Status
Registered
Governing document
SCHEME DATED 30 OCT 1953AS AMENDED BY SCHEME DATED 11 MAY 1989AS AMENDED BY SCHEME DATED 02 APR 1997AS AMENDED BY SCHEME DATED 16 JUL 2003AS AMENDED BY RESOLUTION DATED 01 SEP 2016 as amended on 10 Apr 2019 as amended on 06 Nov 2019
Contact on the register
07803908686
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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