Registered charity · Bedfordshire
The Steel Charitable Trust
- 6 trustees
- Income £1.1m (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources
Who leads it
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
- Where
- Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
- Website
- www.steelcharitabletrust.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 1976
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£1.1m£1.5m
- 2024£1.1m£1.2m
- 2023£1.3m£1.6m
Earlier years
- 2022£25m£1.3m
- 2021£1.2m£1.3m
Charitable objects
TO PAY OR APPLY OR CAUSE TO BE PAID OR APPLIED AT SUCH TIME OR TIMES AND IN SUCH MANNER AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL IN THEIR DISCRETION THINK FIT, THE INCOME, AND IF AND IN SO FAR AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL THINK FIT, THE CAPITAL OF THE TRUST FUND TO SUCH CHARITABLE BODIES, AND PARTICULARLY THOSE SPECIFIED IN THE SCHEDULE OR FOR SUCH OTHER PURPOSES AS SHALL BE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE.
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.
6 trustees on the board
- Peter Day Chair since 2020
- Jonathan Marcus Robert Finch since 2025
- Nicholas Edward Weatherley Wright since 1976
- Philip Cazenove Lawford since 2008
- Sophie Emily Wilkins since 2025
- Wendy Elizabeth Bailey since 2008
Trustees past 6 years
- Nicholas Edward Weatherley Wright since 1976
- Philip Cazenove Lawford since 2008
- Wendy Elizabeth Bailey since 2008
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (4)
- Peter Day Chair since 2020
- Nicholas Edward Weatherley Wright since 1976
- Sophie Emily Wilkins since 2025
- Wendy Elizabeth Bailey since 2008
Portfolio (2)
- Jonathan Marcus Robert Finch since 2025
- Philip Cazenove Lawford since 2008
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
Gaps to watch
- Several long-serving trustees could step down together
- Narrow spread of causes across 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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
120.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 0.9 in 2021
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 272384
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- SETTLEMENT DATED 15TH FEBRUARY 1976
- Contact on the register
- 01582240601 · info@steelcharitabletrust.org.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 13th 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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