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The Archie Sherman Charitable Trust

4 trustees
Income £1.3m (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th 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, Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability and 5 more
Where: Throughout England And Wales
Registered: 1968

Income and spending

YearIncomeSpending
2025£1.3m£1.4m
2024£1.4m£1.2m
2023£1.2m£2.0m

Earlier years

2022£1.1m£900k
2021£1.2m£689k

Charitable objects

FOR THE BENEFIT OR IN FURTHERANCE OF SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES, CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS OR CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONSO AS THE TRUSTEES MAY DETERMINE.

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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.

4 trustees on the board

8.5y median 8.5y

average tenure

12y

longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

Rhona Freedman since 2014

25y

average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (1)

Adrian Simon since 2021

Portfolio (3)

company-linked trustees

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

Education/training 4General Charitable Purposes 4The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 4

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

Professional services 3Finance 2Other services 2

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£1.3m 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.

9.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 25.6 in 2021

1 from 1 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.

Sources

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

Record details

Registered charity number: 256893
Status: Registered
Governing document: TRUST DEED DATED 3RD APRIL 1967
Contact on the register: 02074931904 · trust@sherman.co.uk
Edition: Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels: Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.

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