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Registered charity · Ashtead

Guild of Motoring Writers Benevolent Fund

  • 7 trustees
  • Income £4k (2024)
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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, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Registered
1969

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£4k£9k
  • 2023£6k£8k
  • 2022£4k£14k
Earlier years
  • 2021£5k£9k
  • 2020£9k£9k

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Charitable objects

THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AMONG AND FOR (A) SUCH DESERVING POOR ANS NECESSITOUS PERSONS AS ARE HAVE BEEN OR SHALL AT ANY TIME BE MEMBERS OF FORMER MEMBERS OF THE GUILD OR WHO QUALIFY FOR BENEFIT FROM THE FUNDS OF ANY OTHER CHARITY HAVING SIMILAR OBJECTS TH THIS CHARITY (SUCH PERSONS AS AFORESAID BEING CALLED "THE INTENDED BENEFICIARIES"). (B) THE DESERVING POOR AND NECESSITOUS WIVES WIDOWS CHILDREN OR DEPENDENTS OR ANY OF THE INTENDED BENEFICIARIES.

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.

6y median 6y
average tenure
10y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

3.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (4)

Portfolio (3)

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 7The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 6Education/training 2Arts/culture/heritage/science 1The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£4k latest income · spending exceeded income in 2023 and 2024

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
259583
Status
Registered
Governing document
DECLARATION OF TRUST DATED 2ND SEPTEMBER 1969 AS AMENDED 20TH APRIL 1976 as amended on 20 Dec 2017
Contact on the register
07823 776674 · benfundadmin@gomw.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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