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Registered charity · London

Outward Housing

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £21m (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
Education/training, Accommodation/housing, Recreation
Where
Throughout London, East Sussex
Website
outward.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Outward Housing
Registered
1988

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£21m£21m
  • 2024£20m£20m
  • 2023£18m£18m
Earlier years
  • 2022£18m£18m
  • 2021£18m£17m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 66%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PROVIDE HOUSING, EDUCATION, SUPPORT AND CARE TO PERSONS IN NECESSITOUS CIRCUMSTANCES, INCLUDING PEOPLE WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES, PEOPLE WITH MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS AND OLDER PEOPLE, ON APPROPRIATE TERMS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THEIR INDIVIDUAL NEEDS AND IN ANY WAY THAT IS CHARITABLE BY LAW.

Grants received

5 grants · £84,669 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 Heritage Fund · £49,700
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £16,219 (2 grants)
  • Sport England · £9,850
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £8,900

Most recent

  • Sport England £9,8502022-05-16
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £10,0002021-03-19
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £8,9002020-08-17
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £6,2192014-07-09
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £49,7002013-06-24
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.

11 trustees on the board

2.5y median 2y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

5.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (11)

11
company-linked trustees

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

Accommodation/housing 11Education/training 11Recreation 11

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Property 12Health and social care 5Other services 2

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£21.4m 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.

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

391 from 468 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
800529
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 29TH JULY 1987 AS AMENDED 11TH JUNE 1988 AND 3 MARCH 2009. as amended on 09 Mar 2022
Companies House
Company number 02151434 · Active
Contact on the register
02089807101 · info@outward.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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