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Registered charity · Manchester

The Communications and Public Service Lifeboat Fund

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £49k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.thelifeboatfund.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1966

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£49k£91k
  • 2024£40k£11k
  • 2023£48k£68k
Earlier years
  • 2022£108k£112k
  • 2021£72k£91k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE FUND SHALL BE THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF LIFE AT SEA BY RAISING MONEY TO FURTHER THE WORK OF THE RNLI BY PROVIDING FROM TIME TO TIME THE COST, IN WHOLE OR IN PART, OF REPLACEMENT OF CISPOTEL BOATS AND/OR ADDITIONAL LIFEBOATS AT OTHER STATIONS; AND IN ANY OTHER RELATED MANNER THAT MAY BE AGREED BETWEEN CISPOTEL AND THE RNLI.

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.

4.3y median 3y
average tenure
16y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

4.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (11)

Portfolio (1)

0
company-linked trustees

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

General Charitable Purposes 12Education/training 1

Gaps to watch

  • No commercial or business experience on the board
  • 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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£40k latest income

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
248421
Status
Registered
Governing document
OBJECTS AND METHOD OF MANAGEMENT AS APPROVED 8 JULY 1949 AS AMENDED BY RESOLUTION DATED 6 MARCH 1969 AS AMENDED BY AGM 1984 AS AMENDED 23 MARCH 1993 AS AMENDED BY SCHEME DATED 1 JUNE 1999 AS AMENDED BY CONSTITUTION DATED 16 MARCH 1999 AS AMENDED 20 MARCH 2002 AS AMENDED ON 22 APRIL 2015 as amended on 10 Sep 2019
Contact on the register
0300 038 9303 · lifeboat.fund@dwp.gov.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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