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The Halo Trust

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £166m (2025)

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
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Overseas Aid/famine Relief
Where
Cambodia, Colombia, Georgia, Guatemala and more
Website
www.halotrust.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Halo Trust
Registered
1991

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£166m£163m
  • 2024£148m£145m
  • 2023£128m£121m
Earlier years
  • 2022£95m£95m
  • 2021£90m£90m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 5%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

(A) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, SICKNESS, SUFFERING AND DISTRESS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, IN PARTICULAR BY THE PROVISION OF HYDROLOGICAL, ENGINEERING AND OTHER WORKS AND MEDICAL AID WITH PARTICULAR EMPHASIS ON THE CARE AND REHABILITATION OF NON-COMBATANT VICTIMS IN AREAS WHERE THERE IS HUMAN CONFLICT AND THE PROVISION OF ASSISTANCE IN THE REMOVAL OF DEBRIS OF MILITARY HARDWARE WHICH MAY BE A DIRECT THREAT TO NON-COMBATANTS IN HAZARDOUS AREAS WHERE HOSTILITIES HAVE CEASED. (B) TO CARRY OUT OR CONDUCT OR TO ASSIST IN CARRYING OUT OR CONDUCTING ANY RESEARCH INTO THE SPECIAL PROBLEMS ARISING FROM INJURIES SUSTAINED BY NON-COMBATANTS IN HAZARDOUS AREAS AND INTO METHODS OF ALLEVIATING SUFFERING ARISING THEREFROM AND TO PUBLISH THE USEFUL RESULTS OF ANY SUCH RESEARCH.

Grants received

3 grants · £415,000 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

  • Postcode Global Trust · £400,000
  • SHAREGIFT · £15,000 (2 grants)

Most recent

  • SHAREGIFT £10,0002024-10-09
  • SHAREGIFT £5,0002023-05-17
  • Postcode Global Trust £400,0002022-02-09
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.

3.6y median 3.5y
average tenure
10y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

12y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

Portfolio (3)

10
company-linked trustees

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

The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 12The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 10Overseas Aid/famine Relief 9Education/training 3General Charitable Purposes 2

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

Transport 10Arts and leisure 3Finance 3

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£165.6m 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.

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

11216 from 8296 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
1001813
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 09/03/1988AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 25/01/1991AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 31/01/2000AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 08/09/2006AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 28/07/2011AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 08/05/2012AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 25/07/2014NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 25/03/2015 as amended on 18 Sep 2018
Companies House
Company number 02228587 · Active
Contact on the register
01848331100 · mail@halotrust.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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