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Gale Family Charity Trust

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £850k (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
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability and 8 more
Where
Bedford
Registered
1984

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£850k£356k
  • 2024£164k£344k
  • 2023£116k£439k
Earlier years
  • 2022£103k£355k
  • 2021£102k£1.5m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

TO OR FOR GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSES.

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.

8y median 7y
average tenure
12y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

13.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (4)

Portfolio (4)

3
company-linked trustees

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

Education/training 7General Charitable Purposes 7The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 4Religious Activities 2Accommodation/housing 1Amateur Sport 1Environment/conservation/heritage 1The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 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 4Arts and leisure 2Education 1

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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£850k 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.

0.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months

0
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.
22 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
289212
Status
Registered
Governing document
TRUST DEED DATED 7TH FEBRUARY 1984 AS AMENDED BY ORDER OF 19 JANUARY 2006 AND RESOLUTIONS DATED 13 MARCH 2006 AND 11 JANUARY 2008
Contact on the register
01234354508 · galefamilytrust@gmail.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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