The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 30th August 2026

Adoption Matters

Registered charity 512892 Registered since 1983

Operates: Throughout England And Wales

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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.

12 trustees on the board

3.9y median 0y
average tenure
19y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (2)

8
company-linked trustees

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

Other Charitable Purposes 11Accommodation/housing 1Economic/community Development/employment 1Education/training 1General Charitable Purposes 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 6Hospitality 2Arts and leisure 1

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£4.3m latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

2.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 8.8 in 2021

81 from 86 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.

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

Connected through a shared trustee

Also active in the same field

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitewww.adoptionmatters.org.uk
Emailinfo@adoptionmatters.org.uk
Phone01244390938
AddressAdoption Matters, 14 Liverpool Road, Chester, CH2 1AE

Finances

£4,317,136 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£4,937,408£4,207,673
2022£4,137,636£4,545,819
2023£4,533,523£4,760,646
2024£4,077,065£4,848,928
2025£4,317,136£4,843,316

What it does

What

Other Charitable Purposes

Who

Children/young PeopleThe General Public/mankind

How

Provides Services

Charitable objects

“4.1 The Charity’s Object is specifically restricted to the following:4.1.1 to promote the care and welfare of vulnerable children without parents or families able to look after them primarily, but not exclusively, through the provision of a high-quality adoption service with the aim of securing permanent homes and stable lives for such children; and4.1.2 in furthering the Object the Charity shall have regard to the principles of the Christian faith.”

Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 25/02/1982AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 01/04/1993AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 24/10/1993AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 28/03/2007AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 18/04/2007AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 21/05/2014AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 14/08/2014 as amended on 09 Oct 2020 as amended on 20 Sep 2023

Trustees (12)

12trustees
63median age
0aged 70+

Linked company (Companies House)

Adoption Matters · 01617324 · Active

PRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of 'Limited' exemption) · incorporated 25/02/1982

6 governing document(s) held from Companies House.

Connected charities (5)

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