Registered charity · Reading
Launchpad Reading
- 12 trustees
- Income £4.7m (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources
Who leads it
- Hannah PowellChair · since 2024
- Alison WrightTrustee · since 2022
- Amy BrunsdonTrustee · since 2025
- Anna BaileyTrustee · since 2025
- Antony MorrisTrustee · since 2025
- Christopher John GouldingTrustee · since 2026
- Daniel WilkinsTrustee · since 2025
- Deborah Jane EdwardsTrustee · since 2020
- Fiona Jane HammondTrustee · since 2024
- Ian HaslamTrustee · since 2017
- Stephen PolandTrustee · since 2025
- William MontagueTrustee · since 2017
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
- Hannah Powell Chair since 2024
- Alison Wright since 2022
- Amy Brunsdon since 2025
- Anna Bailey since 2025
- Antony Morris since 2025
- Christopher John Goulding since 2026
- Daniel Wilkins since 2025
- Deborah Jane Edwards since 2020
- Fiona Jane Hammond since 2024
- Ian Haslam since 2017
- Stephen Poland since 2025
- William Montague since 2017
Trustees past 6 years
- Deborah Jane Edwards since 2020
- Ian Haslam since 2017
- William Montague since 2017
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (12)
- Hannah Powell Chair since 2024
- Alison Wright since 2022
- Amy Brunsdon since 2025
- Anna Bailey since 2025
- Antony Morris since 2025
- Christopher John Goulding since 2026
- Daniel Wilkins since 2025
- Deborah Jane Edwards since 2020
- Fiona Jane Hammond since 2024
- Ian Haslam since 2017
- Stephen Poland since 2025
- William Montague since 2017
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
0.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 0.9 in 2021
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
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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