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Registered charity · Middlesex

First Rung LTD

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £2.3m (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
Where
Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Enfield and more
Website
www.firstrung.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
First Rung Limited
Registered
1989

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£2.3m£2.1m
  • 2024£2.0m£1.8m
  • 2023£1.7m£1.6m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.4m£1.6m
  • 2021£1.4m£1.6m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 78% · Government grants 7%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

1. TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, PARTICULARLY, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY THE PROVISION OF VOCATIONAL TRAINING. 2. FOR THE RELIEF OF UNEMPLOYMENT FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT PARTICULARLY, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY THE PROVISION OF TRAINING, RETRAINING AND PERIODS OF WORK EXPERIENCE, THROUGH THE PROGRAMMES OF THE LEARNING AND SKILLS COUNCIL, THEIR SUCCESSORS OR SIMILAR PROGRAMMES FUNDED BY THE GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC AGENCIES INCLUDING THE EUROPEAN UNION.

Grants received

1 grant · £9,686 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 · £9,686

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Community Fund £9,6862012-02-15
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.

12 trustees on the board

3.4y median 3.5y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (12)

11
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 12

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

Education 12Finance 1Health and social care 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£2.3m 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.

3.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months

37 from 35 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.
85%
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
800614
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 30TH SEPTEMBER 1987 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION 6TH JANUARY 1988 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION 28TH SEPTEMBER 1999 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION 18TH MARCH 2003 AND 23 FEBRUARY 2005 as amended on 13 Jan 2025
Companies House
Company number 02171777 · Active
Contact on the register
02088034764 · swoolcock@firstrung.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
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