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Registered charity (CIO) · Bristol

Design West

  • 6 trustees
  • Income £998k (2025)
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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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Public contracts won

1 contract

From Contracts Finder and Find a Tender, the UK Government's public procurement notices, under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Matched to this organisation by company number, charity number or exact name and postcode; every figure links to its source notice.

  • PHC26042 Torbay Design Review Panel Buyer: Torbay Council Value not published Date not published Source: Find a Tender

    Design West will deliver the Torbay Design Review Panel [TDRP] as an independent, impartial service for Torbay, its strategic partners, politicians, community, and development community. As an advisory service it will be flexible, challengi…

About

What it does
Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
North Somerset, Bath And North East Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Bristol City and more
Website
www.designwest.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1984

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£998k£988k
  • 2024£1.1m£1.0m
  • 2023£1.1m£983k
Earlier years
  • 2022£825k£831k
  • 2021£588k£440k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 13% · Government grants 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH INAND FOSTER PUBLIC APPRECIATION OF ARCHITECTURE OAND ITS RELATED DISCIPLINES.

Grants received

12 grants · £232,220 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

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.

6 trustees on the board

5.3y median 6y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

3
company-linked trustees

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

Arts/culture/heritage/science 6Education/training 6Environment/conservation/heritage 6

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Arts and leisure 2Education 1Hospitality 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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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£998k latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025
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.

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

19 from 8 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.
14%
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
290575
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - ASSOCIATION CONVERSIONDATED 22 SEP 2022 as amended on 14 Nov 2022
Contact on the register
01173130971 · olga.samchuk@designwest.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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