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Registered charity · Lancashire

Active Service Trust

  • 6 trustees
  • Income £22k (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th 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
Overseas Aid/famine Relief, Religious Activities, Economic/community Development/employment
Where
Lancashire, Nigeria
Website
www.activeservicetrust.org (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1980

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£22k£23k
  • 2024£27k£29k
  • 2023£21k£26k
Earlier years
  • 2022£22k£27k
  • 2021£16k£21k
Charitable objects

TO PROCLAIM AND FURTHER THE GOSPEL OF GOD CONCERNING HIS SON JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD AND THE PREACHING AND TEACHING OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH THROUGHOUT THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND ELSEWHERE. TO ORGANISE, SPONSOR AND PROMOTE INTERDENOMINATIONAL CHRISTIAN WORK THROUGHOUT THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND ELSEWHERE THE OBJECT OF WHICH SHALL BE: (1) TO SEEK TO PRESENT THE GOSPEL TO EVERY CREATURE BY EVERY MEANS POSSIBLE AND LEAD MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN TO A SAVING FAITH IN OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST AND HELP AND ENCOURAGE THEREIN THE SERVICE OF GOD. (2) TO PRODUCE, PUBLISH AND DISTRIBUTE THE SCRIPTURES, CHRISTIAN LITERATURE, AUDI VISUAL AIDS, FILMS AND ANY OTHER MATERIAL OF A RELIGIOUS NATURE. (3) TO ASSIST IN THE RELIEF OF HUMAN SUFFERING AND POVERTY CONSEQUENT UPON THE EFFECT OF PERSONAL LOCAL NATIONAL OR INTERNATIONAL DISASTER.

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.

6 trustees on the board

9y median 9y
average tenure
13y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

11.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (4)

Portfolio (2)

0
company-linked trustees

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

Economic/community Development/employment 6Overseas Aid/famine Relief 6Religious Activities 6

Gaps to watch

  • No commercial or business experience on the board

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£22k latest income · spending exceeded income 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
280638
Status
Registered
Governing document
DECLARATION OF TRUST DATED 27 MAY 1980. as amended on 20 Apr 2026
Contact on the register
01253 876376 · mclellanshirley@yahoo.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th 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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