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Registered charity · Birmingham

The Walter Smith Charitable Trust

  • 3 trustees
  • Income £5k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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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
General Charitable Purposes
Where
Birmingham City
Registered
1977

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£5k£4k
  • 2024£14k£9k
  • 2023£2k£5k
Earlier years
  • 2022£12k£5k
  • 2021£6k£6k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

SUCH CHARITIES OR FOR SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES IN SUCH AMOUNTS AS THE COMPANY MAY BE NOTICE IN WRITING FROM TIME TO TIME DIRECT AND IN DEFAULT OF ANY SUCH DIRECTION OR SO FAR AS THE SAME MAY NOT EXTEND IN TRUST FOR SUCH CHARITY AND CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL IN THEIR DISCRETION SELECT.

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.

3 trustees on the board

32.7y median 22y
average tenure
54y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

33.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (3)

1
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 3

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

Agriculture 1Education 1Health and social care 1

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together
  • Small board - little cover if a trustee leaves

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£5k latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
272959
Status
Registered
Governing document
TRUST DEED OF 5TH JANUARY 1977
Contact on the register
0121 454 4508
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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