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Registered charity (CIO) · Preston

Community Council of Lancashire

Community Council of Lancashire is a registered charity (number 702233) based in Preston, governed by 5 trustees. Latest income £738k (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 4th October 2026.

Also known as Community Futures (Charity Commission)

  • 5 trustees
  • Income £738k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 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, Environment/conservation/heritage and 1 more
Where
Lancashire
Website
www.communityfutures.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1989

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£738k£656k
  • 2024£857k£684k
  • 2023£563k£621k
Earlier years
  • 2022£512k£657k
  • 2021£744k£676k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

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

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITIES IN THE PALATINE COUNTY OF LANCASHIRE AND ELSEWHERE (HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AS THE AREA OF BENEFIT) PRIMARILY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, ADVOCACY AND TRAINING, THE PROTECTION AND ENHANCEMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT, THE PRESERVATION OF GOOD HEALTH, THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND RELIEF OF THOSE IN NECESSITOUS CIRCUMSTANCES.

Grants received

13 grants · £766,795 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 · £654,485 (9 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £71,560 (2 grants)
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £40,750 (2 grants)

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Community Fund £8,0922023-06-23
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £60,0002021-07-13
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £66,5602020-09-11
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £5,0002020-06-26
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £30,2402020-06-11
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.

5 trustees on the board

1.8y median 1y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (5)

0
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 5General Charitable Purposes 5The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 5

Gaps to watch

  • No commercial or business experience on the board
  • Mostly recent joiners - limited long-term continuity

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£738k 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.

2.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 5.3 in 2021

22 from 37 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.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
702233
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - FOUNDATION CONVERSIONDATED 06 OCT 2025
Contact on the register
01772717461 · admin@communityfutures.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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