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Registered charity · Chesterfield

The Association for Real Change

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £1.7m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources

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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
Education/training, Disability, Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity, Other Charitable Purposes
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.arcuk.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Association for Real Change
Registered
1982

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.7m£1.7m
  • 2024£1.8m£1.7m
  • 2023£2.3m£2.4m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.9m£2.0m
  • 2021£2.1m£2.0m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 6% · Government grants 28%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

(A) FOR THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF ALL ORGANISATIONS, ASSOCIATIONS, INDIVIDUALS/ OR GROUPS OF INDIVIDUALS CONCERNED WITH THE CARE OF PEOPLE WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES (ALL OF WHICH ORGANISATIONS, ASSOCIATIONS, INDIVIDUALS AND/ OR GROUPS OF INDIVIDUALS ARE HEREINAFTER COLLECTIVELY REFERRED TO AS "THE ORGANISATIONS AND INDIVIDUALS") IN MATTERS RELATING TO THE CARE OF PEOPLE WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES AND TO THEIR PARTICUALR NEED AND REQUIREMENTS. (B) TO WORK FOR AND PROMOTE THE STUDY OF AND RESEARCH INTO ALL MATTERS AFFECTING PEOPLE WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES AND TO OBTAIN AND MAKE RECORDS OF AND DISSEMINATE ALL USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH

Grants received

14 grants · £1,662,527 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 · £1,395,476 (9 grants)
  • Comic Relief · £130,356 (2 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £82,017 (2 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport · £54,678

Most recent

  • Comic Relief £21,0002020-06-23
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £9,7252020-02-03
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £54,6782019-04-01
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport £54,6782019-03-10
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £27,3392019-03-10
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.

8 trustees on the board

3.4y median 3y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

12.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

Portfolio (2)

8
company-linked trustees

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

Disability 8Education/training 7Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity 7Amateur 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.

Health and social care 16Other services 3Finance 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£1.7m 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.

2.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months

28 from 31 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.
34%
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
285575
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 13 AUG 1982AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 15 JAN 1990AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 05 NOV 1991AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 15 FEB 2001AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 04 JUL 2003AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 21 NOV 2007AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 09 NOV 2018 as amended on 01 Oct 2019
Companies House
Company number 01658354 · Active
Contact on the register
01246555043 · contact.us@arcuk.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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