Registered charity · Totnes
The Gordon Carling Foundation
- 5 trustees
- Income £4k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 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
- Disability, Accommodation/housing
- Where
- Devon
- Website
- gordoncarling.com (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- The Gordon Carling Foundation
- Registered
- 1984
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£4k£512k
- 2024£118k£2.8m
- 2023£253k£110k
Earlier years
- 2022£385k£168k
- 2021£266k£194k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Charitable objects
TO ENSURE THAT PEOPLE WITH A LEARNING DISABILITY LIVING IN SOUTH DEVON HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO ENJOY THE WIDEST POSSIBLE INDEPENDENCE AND QUALITY OF LIFE. (THE FOUNDATION FULLY SUPPORTS THE GOVERNMENT'S WHITE PAPER , "VALUING PEOPLE" WHICH IS BASED ON THE PRINCIPLES OF RIGHTS, INDEPENDENCE, CHOICE AND INCLUSION)
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.
5 trustees on the board
- ANN Widger
- Andrew Bishop since 2014
- Bea Gill since 2016
- Colin Voisey since 2016
- Laurel Ellis since 2019
Trustees past 6 years
- Andrew Bishop since 2014
- Bea Gill since 2016
- Colin Voisey since 2016
- Laurel Ellis since 2019
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (5)
- ANN Widger
- Andrew Bishop since 2014
- Bea Gill since 2016
- Colin Voisey since 2016
- Laurel Ellis since 2019
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.
Gaps to watch
- Several long-serving trustees could step down together
- 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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Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 288402
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 29 JULY 1983 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS DATED 14 APRIL 2003, 20 SEPTEMBER 2004 AND 15 JUNE 2009, AND CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 8 DECEMBER 2005 AS AND 20 JULY 2009. as amended on 12 Dec 2018
- Companies House
- Company number 01743492 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 07979860892 · sallybishop51@gmail.com
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 4th October 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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