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Frontline Advice Centre

4 trustees
Income £14k (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th 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: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Where: Isle Of Wight
Website: www.frontlineiow.org (opens in a new tab)
Registered: 1982

Income and spending

YearIncomeSpending
2025£14k£16k
2024£17k£20k
2023£26k£14k

Earlier years

2022£12k£16k
2021£15k£10k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, HUNGER AND DISTRESS PRINCIPALLY BY OFFERING FREE DEBT, WELFARE BENEFITS AND BUDGETING ADVICE.

Grants received

1 grant · £8,072 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

The National Lottery Community Fund · £8,072

Most recent

The National Lottery Community Fund £8,0722007-12-20

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.

4 trustees on the board

7y median 4y

average tenure

15y

longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

Hamish Wilson since 2011

23.3y

average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (3)

Portfolio (1)

Hamish Wilson since 2011

company-linked trustees

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

The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 4Amateur Sport 1The 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.

Professional services 5Arts and leisure 3Business services 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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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£14k latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025

63 days

Latest accounts filed after the due dateiFiled after the due dateDate the accounts were received minus the reporting due date, latest filed cycle, Charity Commission register.

Sources

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

Record details

Registered charity number: 285044
Status: Registered
Governing document: CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 1ST JUNE 1982 AS AMENDED 15 MAY 1994 AND 13 OCTOBER 2006 AND 29 JANUARY 2010 as amended on 14 Nov 2025
Contact on the register: 01983291552 · adviser@frontlineiow.org
Edition: Register edition compiled 27th 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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