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Registered charity · Edinburgh

Foreign and Commonwealth Office Welfare Fund

  • 3 trustees
  • Income £5k (2025)
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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
General Charitable Purposes
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland
Registered
1992

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£5k£2k
  • 2024£6k£196
  • 2023£7k£3k
Earlier years
  • 2022£5k£2k
  • 2021£4k£2k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

1)RELIEF OF POVERTY AMONGST MEMBERS AND FORMER MEMBERS OF HER MAJESTY'S DIPLOMATIC SERVICE AND AMONGST THE WIDOWS, CHILDERN AND AMONGST THE WIDOWS, CHILDERN AND DEPENDENTS OF SUCH MEMBERS AND FORMER MEMBERS. 2)RELIEF OF POVERTY AMONGST MEMBERS AND FORMER MEMBERS OF HER MAJESTY'S HOME CIVIL SERVICE WHO ARE SERVING OR WHO HAVE SERVED WITH THE FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE OR DIPLOMATIC SERVICE POST OVERSEAS AND AMONGST THE WIDOWS, CHILDREN AND DEPENDENTS OF SUCH MEMBERS OR FORMER MEMBERS.

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 trustees on the board

5y median 2y
average tenure
11y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

5.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (3)

0
company-linked trustees

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

General Charitable Purposes 3

Gaps to watch

  • Small board - little cover if a trustee leaves

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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£6k latest income · income exceeded spending in 2023 and 2024

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1011594
Status
Registered
Governing document
SCHEME DATED 14 JANUARY 1992
Contact on the register
07557 863009 · fcdo.welfarefund@fcdo.gov.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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