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Registered charity · Kent

Porchlight

Porchlight is a registered charity (number 267116) based in Kent, governed by 11 trustees. Latest income £10m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 18th October 2026.

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £10m (2025)
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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
Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Accommodation/housing
Where
Bexley, East Sussex, Kent
Website
www.porchlight.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Porchlight
Registered
1974

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£10m£12m
  • 2024£13m£13m
  • 2023£14m£13m
Earlier years
  • 2022£14m£13m
  • 2021£13m£12m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 47%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

A) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, SICKNESS AND OLD AGE IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT IN ANY WAY LIMITING THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING WORDS) FOR THE RELIEF OF THE POVERTY OF PERSONS WHO BY REASON OF MENTAL OR PHYSICAL INFIRMITY ARE UNABLE TO FULFIL THEIR DUTIES AS CITIZENS OR THEIR OBLIGATIONS TO THEIR EMPLOYERS.B) THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED BY REASON OF YOUTH, AGE, ILL-HEALTH, DISABILITY OR FINANCIAL HARDSHIP IN PARTICULAR BY THE PROVISION OF HOUSING, HOSTELS, OTHER HOUSING ACCOMMODATION AND ANY ASSOCIATED AMENITIES, SERVICES, ADVICE, ADVOCACY, TRAINING OR ASSISTANCE.C) THE ADVANCEMENT OF PUBLIC EDUCATION IN (INCLUDING RESEARCH AND DISSEMINATING THE USEFUL RESULTS OF THAT RESEARCH INTO) THE PROVISION OF HOUSING AND HOUSING RELATED SERVICES TO THOSE IN NEED.

Grants received

14 grants · £2,741,006 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

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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.

11 trustees on the board

3.8y median 2y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

11.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (1)

11
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 11Education/training 11The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 11

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

Hospitality 12Health and social care 4Education 3

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£10.4m latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

1.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 1.2 in 2021

200 from 224 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
267116
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 18/01/1974AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 08/03/2002AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 28/02/2007AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 18/09/2009AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 10/06/2008AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 15/12/2011AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 11 AUG 2017 as amended on 25 Sep 2020
Companies House
Company number 01157482 · Active
Contact on the register
01227760078 · headoffice@porchlight.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 18th October 2026
Labels
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