Discover LU5|Central Bedfordshire

Counted by registered address. A charity or company registered here may work elsewhere, and organisations from elsewhere may work here.

Charities, schools and the council. Each name links to its GovReg profile.

787 charities are registered here; the 761 that report income have a combined income of £312.8m and a median of £15,379. Income is as reported to the Charity Commission, and a charity may spend it elsewhere.

Central Bedfordshire has 64 elected councillors in this area. Only elected members are named, as public office holders.

• Independent27
• Conservative and Unionist Party20
• Liberal Democrats10
• Labour Party5
• Green Party1
• Reform UK1

Among the 761 largest charities here with trustee data, 229 are linked to at least one other through 189 shared board members. This shows how boards overlap, which is not the same as influence or control, and in small communities the same volunteers often serve more than one cause.

• The South Bedfordshire Methodist Circuit and Trinity Methodist Church Leighton Buzzard8 shared board members
• Maulden Welfare Trust and Educational Charity of Becket and Wichalse7 shared board members
• Maulden Welfare Trust and The Charity of Louisa Moore for Bibles for The Aged7 shared board members
• Educational Charity of Becket and Wichalse and The Charity of Louisa Moore for Bibles for The Aged7 shared board members
• Blandina Marshe's Charity and Mary Lockington Charity6 shared board members
• Science of The Soul - British Isles and Science of The Soul British Isles6 shared board members
• Maulden Welfare Trust and Thomas Sheppard6 shared board members
• Educational Charity of Becket and Wichalse and Thomas Sheppard6 shared board members
• The Charity of Louisa Moore for Bibles for The Aged and Thomas Sheppard6 shared board members
• Northill Parochial Charities and Elizabeth Hutchinson's Charity6 shared board members