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Registered charity · Warrington

Making Space

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £34m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 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 1 more
Where
Throughout England
Website
www.makingspace.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Making Space
Registered
1982

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£34m£35m
  • 2024£34m£34m
  • 2023£31m£32m
Earlier years
  • 2022£32m£32m
  • 2021£28m£27m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 98% · Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE CHARITY’S OBJECTS ARE THE RELIEF OF PEOPLE WHO ARE IN NEED BY REASON OF ANY PHYSICAL OR MENTAL ILLNESS OR DISABILITY ARISING FROM AGE, ACCIDENT, DISEASE OR INFECTION, INCLUDING BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION LEARNING DISABILITIES AND DEMENTIA, AND THE RELIEF OF THEIR FAMILIES AND CARERS.

Grants received

24 grants · £184,163 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

  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £115,818 (7 grants)
  • Cheshire Community Foundation · £24,868 (6 grants)
  • Point North · £15,500 (3 grants)
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £9,600
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport · £8,000 (2 grants)

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.

8 trustees on the board

3.6y median 3y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

9.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

8
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 8General Charitable Purposes 8The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 8

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 10Education 2Finance 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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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£34.2m 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.

5.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 2.4 in 2021

984 from 989 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.
98%
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
512907
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 08/06/1982AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 25/09/1982AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 21/06/1990AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 27/11/1999AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 19/02/2005AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 01/11/2007AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 07/12/2011AS REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 29/03/2012AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 11 MAY 2016 as amended on 15 Dec 2021
Companies House
Company number 01642033 · Active
Contact on the register
01925581798 · business.support@makingspace.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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