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The Friendship Project

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £108k (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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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, Disability, Amateur Sport and 1 more
Where
Coventry City, Warwickshire
Website
www.friendshipproject.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1986

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£108k£91k
  • 2024£96k£95k
  • 2023£78k£93k
Earlier years
  • 2022£68k£78k
  • 2021£63k£60k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

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

Charitable objects

TO PROVIDE FACILITIES FOR THE SOCIAL AND PHYSICAL TRAINING OF CHILDREN PARTICULARLY DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN BETWEEN THE AGES OF 6 AND 16 YEARS WHO BY REASON OF THEIR SOCIAL CIRCUMSTANCES ARE IN NEED OF DEVELOPING SOCIAL SKILLS BY SUCH MEANS AS THE PROJECT THINKS FIT INCLUDING THE ORGANISATION OF CONTACTS BETWEEN SUCH CHILDREN AND RELIABLE OLDER PERSONS ABLE TO HELP THEM DEVELOP SUCH SKILLS.

Grants received

9 grants · £73,507 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

  • Garfield Weston Foundation · £25,000 (3 grants)
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £18,209 (2 grants)
  • Masonic Charitable Foundation · £18,098 (2 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £7,000
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport · £5,200

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.

9 trustees on the board

7.9y median 3.5y
average tenure
40y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

14.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (2)

4
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 9General Charitable Purposes 9Disability 8Amateur Sport 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 4Education 2Other services 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£108k latest income · income exceeded spending 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
517684
Status
Registered
Governing document
CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 12/05/1986AS AMENDED ON 07/09/1993AS AMENDED ON 06/03/1995AS AMENDED ON 11/05/2005
Contact on the register
01926332179 · cheryll.rawbone@friendshipproject.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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