The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 30th August 2026

Porchlight

Registered charity 267116 Registered since 1974

Operates: Bexley, East Sussex, Kent

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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.

11 trustees on the board

3.8y median 2y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

11.7y
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.

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

Connected through a shared trustee

Also active in the same field

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitewww.porchlight.org.uk
Emailheadoffice@porchlight.org.uk
Phone01227760078
Address15 New Town Street, CANTERBURY, Kent, CT1 1BX

Finances

£10,408,527 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£12,642,643£12,060,147
2022£13,731,499£12,911,969
2023£13,979,224£13,328,866
2024£12,601,880£13,071,610
2025£10,408,527£11,813,043

What it does

What

Education/trainingThe Prevention Or Relief Of PovertyAccommodation/housing

Who

Children/young PeopleOther Defined Groups

How

Provides Buildings/facilities/open SpaceProvides ServicesProvides Advocacy/advice/information

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.

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

Trustees (11)

11trustees
59median age
0aged 70+

Linked company (Companies House)

Porchlight · 01157482 · Active

PRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of 'Limited' exemption) · incorporated 18/01/1974

6 governing document(s) held from Companies House.

Connected charities (1)

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