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UK Community Foundations

UK Community Foundations is a registered charity (number 1004630) based in London, governed by 12 trustees and chaired by Andrew Simon Tuggey CBE DL since 2020. Latest income £11m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 18th October 2026.

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £11m (2025)
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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Economic/community Development/employment
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.ukcommunityfoundations.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
UK Community Foundations
Registered
1991

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£11m£11m
  • 2024£13m£13m
  • 2023£8.2m£8.9m
Earlier years
  • 2022£6.4m£8.0m
  • 2021£83m£83m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 81%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

(A) TO PROMOTE AND IMPROVE THE EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS IN DIRECT PURSUIT OF THEIR OBJECTS IN SUCH MANNER AS MAY BE THOUGHT FIT AND IN PARTICULAR BY RAISING AND DISTRIBUTING FUNDS FOR APPLICATION FOR THE GENERAL PURPOSES OF SUCH FOUNDATIONS (B) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE WORK OF SUCH FOUNDATIONS (C) TO PROMOTE OTHER EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES OF BENEFIT TO THE COMMUNITY.

Grants received

97 grants · £121,585,029 total

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Top funders

  • National Emergencies Trust · £76,217,225 (59 grants)
  • Comic Relief · £13,441,250 (10 grants)
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport · £11,839,347 (2 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £8,049,389 (9 grants)
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £5,409,852 (4 grants)

Most recent

  • SHAREGIFT £5,0002023-03-23
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport £5,922,0872022-11-18
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport £5,917,2602022-11-18
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £1,600,0002022-11-18
  • National Emergencies Trust £2,064,4982021-01-26

Grants given

250 grants · £75,827,944 total

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Top recipients

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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

1.8y median 1.5y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

9.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

Portfolio (4)

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 12General Charitable Purposes 12Economic/community Development/employment 11The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 1

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

Professional services 16Other services 13Arts and leisure 9

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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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£11.3m latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

0.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months

18 from 17 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
1004630
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 07/10/1991AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 02/12/1993AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 17/07/1996AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 21/10/1998AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 19/01/2000AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 27/04/2001AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 23/04/2003AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 11/07/2012AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 01 MAR 2017 as amended on 10 Dec 2020
Companies House
Company number 02651777 · Active
Contact on the register
02077139326 · INFO@UKCOMMUNITYFOUNDATIONS.ORG
Edition
Register edition compiled 18th October 2026
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