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Registered charity · London

The 1959 Group of Charities

  • 5 trustees
  • Income £1.7m (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
General Charitable Purposes
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland
Website
www.cardsforcharity.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1966

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.7m£1.7m
  • 2024£1.9m£1.9m
  • 2023£1.9m£1.9m
Earlier years
  • 2022£38k£112k
  • 2021£14k£114k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE THE EFFICIENCY OF MEMBER CHARITIES(AS DEFINED IN CLAUSE E) IN DIRECT FURTHERANCE OF THEIR OBJECTS BY: (I) ESTABLISHING A FORUM THROUGH WHICH THESE CHARITIES CAN EXCHANGE USEFUL INFORMATION AND RESOLVE COMMON PROBLEMS RELATING TO THEIR ADMINISTRATION, PROMOTION AND FUNDRAISING (II) ENCOURAGING AND PROMOTING VOLUNTARY WORK FOR THESE CHARITIES BY THEIR MEMBERS, SUPPORTERS, LOCAL COMMUNITY GROUPS AND MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC

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.

5 trustees on the board

2.8y median 4y
average tenure
4y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
8.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (3)

Portfolio (2)

2
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 5Arts/culture/heritage/science 2Education/training 1Recreation 1

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 1Professional services 1Retail and trade 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£1.7m 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.

0.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months

32 from 35 in 2023
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
249039
Status
Registered
Governing document
CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 31/03/1982AS AMENDED ON 17/09/1982AS AMENDED ON 13/06/1994AS AMENDED ON 14 JUL 2011 as amended on 31 Mar 2022 as amended on 25 Oct 2022
Contact on the register
01264361555 · finance@cfgc.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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