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Registered charity · Cardiff

United Purpose

The Objects of the Charity shall be to further any purpose or purposes recognised by the law of England and Wales as charitable.

  • 4 trustees
  • Income £3.8m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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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
Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Overseas Aid/famine Relief
Where
Cardiff, Bangladesh, Brazil, Cameroon and more
Website
www.united-purpose.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
United Purpose
Registered
1976

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£3.8m£3.4m
  • 2024£4.9m£8.4m
  • 2023£13m£14m
Earlier years
  • 2022£15m£16m
  • 2021£8.9m£11m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2022: Government grants 8%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

The Objects of the Charity shall be to further any purpose or purposes recognised by the law of England and Wales as charitable.

Grants received

15 grants · £4,599,260 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.

Top funders

  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £4,588,128 (14 grants)
  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy · £11,131

Most recent

  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy £11,1312022-04-01
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £295,7252015-05-19
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £473,4052014-12-22
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £477,2722014-10-13
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £550,0002013-12-18
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.

4 trustees on the board

6.5y median 6.5y
average tenure
10y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (1)

Portfolio (3)

4
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Education/training 4The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 4Overseas Aid/famine Relief 3The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 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.

Health and social care 4Dormant 3Other services 3

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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 4 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£4.9m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2023 and 2024
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.

0.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months

310 from 554 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
272465
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 30 SEP 1976AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 18 OCT 1997AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 29 NOV 2003AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 04 DEC 2012AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 21 JUL 2016 as amended on 10 Sep 2019 as amended on 16 Oct 2019 as amended on 04 Aug 2021
Companies House
Company number 01278887 · Active
Contact on the register
02920220066 · up.uk@united-purpose.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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