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Registered charity · West Malling

The Charities AID Foundation

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £1391m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Canada, United States
Website
www.cafonline.org (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1974

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1391m£1231m
  • 2024£1195m£1161m
  • 2023£1147m£1049m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1044m£920m
  • 2021£1008m£931m
Charitable objects

TO BENEFIT ANY CHARITABLE INSTITUTION, TO USE ITS FUNDS FOR ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES WHERESOEVER IN THE WORLD.

Board analysis for researchers

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.

8 trustees on the board

3.2y median 3.5y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure
1
trustees past 6 years
10.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

Portfolio (2)

5
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 7Education/training 2Amateur Sport 1Economic/community Development/employment 1The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 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.

Finance 9Education 5Health and social care 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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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£1390.6m 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.

1.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months

768 from 532 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
268369
Status
Registered
Governing document
TRUST DEED DATED 02/10/1974AS AMENDED BY DEED DATED 04/11/1981AS AMENDED BY DEED DATED 10/08/1982AS AMENDED BY DEED DATED 13/11/1985AS AMENDED BY DEED DATED 13/11/1991AS AMENDED BY DEED DATED 10/11/1994AS AMENDED BY DEED DATED 07/04/1996AS AMENDED BY DEED DATED 14/03/2002AS AMENDED BY DEED DATED 19/03/2004AS AMENDED BY DEED DATED 25/09/2008AS AMENDED BY DEED DATED 01/06/2010AS AMENDED BY DEED DATED 05/02/2016 as amended on 29 Sep 2021 as amended on 25 Jul 2024
Contact on the register
03000123088 · companysecretary@cafonline.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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