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Registered charity · Chichester

The Aldingbourne Trust

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £9.4m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th 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, Education/training, Disability, Accommodation/housing and 3 more
Where
East Sussex, West Sussex, Portsmouth City
Website
www.aldingbournetrust.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Aldingbourne Trust
Registered
1978

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£9.4m£9.6m
  • 2024£9.2m£9.1m
  • 2023£8.9m£8.7m
Earlier years
  • 2022£7.4m£6.8m
  • 2021£7.2m£6.6m
Charitable objects

THE RELIEF OF PERSONS WHO HAVE PHYSICAL OR LEARNING DISABILITIES, INCLUDING THOSE WHO ORIGINATE FROM SOCIALLY DISADVANTAGED BACKGROUNDS AND OTHER EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM WHICH IN THE OPINION OF THE TRUSTEES ARE BENEFICIAL TO THOSE IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT.

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.

10 trustees on the board

14.3y median 14.5y
average tenure
29y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

21.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

Portfolio (1)

9
company-linked trustees

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

Disability 10General Charitable Purposes 10Education/training 9The 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 12Education 3Retail and trade 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 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£9.4m latest income
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.

3.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months

285 from 282 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
276484
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 21/08/1978AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 21/07/1997NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 06/09/2011AS REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 01/12/2011
Companies House
Company number 01385053 · Active
Contact on the register
01243544607 · centraloffice@aldingbourne.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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