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Registered charity · Hertfordshire

The Focolare Trust

  • 5 trustees
  • Income £1.3m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th 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, Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Overseas Aid/famine Relief and 1 more
Where
Scotland, Belgium, Italy
Website
www.focolare.org/gb (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1979

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.3m£934k
  • 2024£1.2m£1.5m
  • 2023£895k£1.1m
Earlier years
  • 2022£744k£785k
  • 2021£2.3m£899k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2024: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES CONNECTED WITH THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION AS MAY FROM TIME TO TIME BE CARRIED OUT BY OR UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MEMBERS OF THE WOMEN'S SECTION OF THE FOCOLARE MOVEMENT. (FOR DETAILS SEE CLAUSE 3 OF THE TRUST DEED).

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.

5 trustees on the board

4.5y median 3.5y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

5.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (5)

1
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 5General Charitable Purposes 5The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 5

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

Arts and leisure 1

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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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£1.3m 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.

4.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 2.1 in 2021

4 from 3 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
279072
Status
Registered
Governing document
TRUST DEED DATED 11TH OCTOBER 1979
Contact on the register
01707339706 · focolaregbf@focolare.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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