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Registered charity · Norwich

Break

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £17m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th 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
Other Charitable Purposes
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.break-charity.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Break
Registered
1983

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£17m£17m
  • 2024£15m£16m
  • 2023£14m£15m
Earlier years
  • 2022£14m£13m
  • 2021£13m£12m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 57% · Government grants 4%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

1. THE RELIEF OF THE NEEDS OF PERSONS WHO ARE SICK, DISABLED (WHETHER PHYSICALLY OR MENTALLY), DISADVANTAGED, INFIRM OR WHO HAVE LEARNING DISABILITIES OR OTHER SPECIAL NEEDS AND OF CHILDREN IN NEED WHO COME FROM POOR OR DEPRIVED BACKGROUNDS; 2. THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF ANY PERSONS WHO FALL WITHIN THE CATEGORIES SPECIFIED IN CLAUSES 3.1 AND 3.3; 3. THE RELIEF OF THE NEEDS OF PERSONS WHO EXPERIENCE EMOTIONAL OR BEHAVIOURAL DISORDERS; 3.4 THE RELIEF OF THE NEEDS AND THE SUPPORT OF THE FAMILIES OF ANY PERSONS FALLING INTO THE CATEGORIES SPECIFIED IN THIS CLAUSE 3.

Grants received

27 grants · £1,151,352 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.

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Most recent

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.

11 trustees on the board

2.2y median 1y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

6.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (11)

11
company-linked trustees

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

Other Charitable Purposes 11

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 12Education 3Finance 2

Gaps to watch

  • Narrow spread of causes across 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£16.6m 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.

0.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 1.0 in 2021

448 from 417 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.
61%
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
286650
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 15TH FEBRUARY 1983, AS AMENDED 26 NOVEMBER 1997 22 AUGUST 2005 AND 14 AUGUST 2006. as amended on 19 Jul 2021 as amended on 25 Mar 2025
Companies House
Company number 01699685 · Active
Contact on the register
01603670100 · office@break-charity.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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