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The Gosling Foundation Limited

The Gosling Foundation Limited is a registered charity (number 326840) based in London, governed by 4 trustees. Latest income £5.1m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 25th October 2026.

(A) The relief of need, hardship or distress of regular and reservist personnel of the Royal Navy and the naval services generally, their families and dependants to include making grants to welfare and other organisations who support them. (B) To...

  • 4 trustees
  • Income £5.1m (2025)

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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 6 more
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.thegoslingfoundation.com (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Gosling Foundation Limited
Registered
1985

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£5.1m£4.6m
  • 2024£4.7m£3.9m
  • 2023£5.2m£4.5m
Earlier years
  • 2022£4.4m£2.9m
  • 2021£4.0m£2.1m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

(A) The relief of need, hardship or distress of regular and reservist personnel of the Royal Navy and the naval services generally, their families and dependants to include making grants to welfare and other organisations who support them. (B) To advance in life and help young people living in the United Kingdom by supporting charitable organisations that provide opportunities and assistance for young people, including (a) through leisure time activities and (b) by facilitating and providing development of their skills to improve their conditions in life and develop their capabilities, that they may grow to full maturity as individuals and members of society. (C) To assist those who, through their social and economic circumstances, are in financial hardship or are marginalised or disadvantaged, in particular by making grants to charitable organisations providing support and relief from hardship in the United Kingdom. (D) For the public benefit to promote the education of young people in such ways as the trustees think fit, including by assisting any charity in the United Kingdom whose aims include advancing education of persons by developing their mental, physical and moral capabilities through educational or vocational or leisure time activities. (E) To provide funding or grants to any such other charitable purposes for the benefit of the public at the discretion of the trustees.

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.

4 trustees on the board

8.8y median 7.5y
average tenure
19y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

24.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (3)

Portfolio (1)

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 4The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 4General Charitable Purposes 3The 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.

Property 6Construction 3Health and social care 3

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£5.1m 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.

120.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months

2
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.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
326840
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 5TH MARCH 1985 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION 22ND SEPTEMBER 1987 as amended on 01 Jul 2025 as amended on 07 Sept 2026
Companies House
Company number 01892360 · Active
Contact on the register
02038727723 · office@thegoslingfoundation.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 25th October 2026
Labels
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