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Registered charity · Reading

Launchpad Reading

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £4.7m (2025)

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, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Accommodation/housing and 2 more
Where
Reading
Website
www.launchpadreading.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Launchpad Reading
Registered
1980

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£4.7m£4.3m
  • 2024£3.6m£3.5m
  • 2023£3.7m£3.2m
Earlier years
  • 2022£3.3m£2.9m
  • 2021£3.6m£3.0m
Charitable objects

(A) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, SICKNESS AND OLD AGE, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE PROVISION OF CARE AND SUPPORT AND IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT LIMITING HE FOREGOING) FOR THE RELIEF OF PERSONS WHO;-(I) HAVE HAD PREVIOUS HOMELESSNESS OR ROUGH SLEEPING(II) HAVE BEEN IMPRISONED OR ARE AT RISK OF RE-OFFENDING(III) HAVE MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS(IV) HAVE LEARNING DIFFICULTIES(V) ARE AT RISK OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE(VI) ARE A PREGNANT TEENAGER(VII) ARE AN OLDER VULNERABLE PERSON(VIII) ARE A YOUNG PERSON AT RISK(IX) ARE A PERSON HAVING A DRUG OR ALCOHOL PROBLEM(X) ARE A PERSON WITH A PHYSICAL OR SENSORY DISABILITY(XI) ARE A PERSON HAVING HIV OR AIDS(XII) ARE A REFUGEE(XIII) ARE A PERSON WITH A PREVIOUS HISTORY OF REPEATED AND UNPLANNED LOSS OF TENANCY(XIV) ARE A TRAVELLER(XV) ARE AN ASYLUM SEEKER(XVI) ARE A PERSON COMING FROM A PROBLEM FAMILY(B) THE CARRYING ON FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY THE PROVISION OF HOUSES, HOSTELS, SUPPORTIVE HOUSING AND CARE AND ANY ASSOCIATED AMENITIES FOR PERSONS IN NECESSITOUS CIRCUMSTANCES ON TERMS APPROPRIATE TO THEIR MEANS

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.

12 trustees on the board

3.1y median 1.5y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (12)

12
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 12General Charitable Purposes 12The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 12

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 16Professional services 2Property 2

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£4.7m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025
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 · was 0.9 in 2021

59 from 49 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.
28%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
279859
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 5 NOVEMBER 1979 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 12 MAY 2008 AND CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 31 MARCH 2010
Companies House
Company number 01459149 · Active
Contact on the register
01189507656 · enquiries@launchpadreading.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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