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Registered charity · Cardiff

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  • 10 trustees
  • Income £25m (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
Disability, Economic/community Development/employment
Where
Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil, Monmouthshire, Neath Port Talbot and more
Website
www.driveltd.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Drive
Registered
1990

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£25m£25m
  • 2024£24m£24m
  • 2023£22m£22m
Earlier years
  • 2022£20m£20m
  • 2021£19m£18m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 86%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE TO PROMOTE THE HEALTH AND WELFARE OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES WHO RESIDE, OR WHO HAVE RESIDED, IN WALES BY THE PROVISION OF ACCOMMODATION, EMPLOYMENT TRAINING AND OTHER SUPPORT SERVICES TO ENABLE THEM TO LIVE IN THE COMMUNITY

Grants received

7 grants · £683,360 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 · £683,360 (7 grants)

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Community Fund £255,0022021-09-23
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £10,0002020-09-07
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £8,1752019-04-12
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £5,0002014-06-30
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £5,0002010-03-24
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.

10 trustees on the board

2.9y median 1y
average tenure
10y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

6.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

10
company-linked trustees

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

Disability 10Economic/community Development/employment 10

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 13Arts and leisure 1Other services 1

Gaps to watch

  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

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£25.2m 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.

1.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months

708 from 703 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
703002
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 29 MAY 1990AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 15 FEB 1993AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 30 OCT 1998AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 20 OCT 2017 as amended on 18 Oct 2022 as amended on 30 Sept 2025
Companies House
Company number 02506147 · Active
Contact on the register
01443845260 · mail@drive-wales.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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