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Registered charity · Solihull

The E H Smith Charitable Trust

  • 5 trustees
  • Income £226k (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources

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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
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland
Registered
1989

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£226k£586k
  • 2024£691k£873k
  • 2023£1.0m£548k
Earlier years
  • 2022£833k£358k
  • 2021£16k£349k
Charitable objects

THE TRUSTEES SHALL HOLD THE CAPITAL AND INCOME OF THE TRUST FUND UPON TRUST TO APPLY THE INCOME AND ALL OR SUCH PART OR PARTS OF THE CAPITAL FOR OR TOWARDS SUCH CHARITABLE INSTITUTION OR SINSTITUTIONS AT SUCH TIME OR TIMES AND IN SUCH MANNER AS THE TRUSTEES MAY IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION THINK FIT.

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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

14.6y median 11y
average tenure
37y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

14.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (2)

Portfolio (3)

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company-linked trustees

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

The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 5Education/training 4General Charitable Purposes 4Disability 1Religious Activities 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 2Retail and trade 2Manufacturing 1

Gaps to watch

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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£226k latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
328313
Status
Registered
Governing document
DECLARATION OF TRUST DATED 31 JULY 1989 as amended on 16 May 2021
Contact on the register
01217137100 · directors@ehsmith.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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