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Registered charity · London

Missing People Limited

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £3.8m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th 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
General Charitable Purposes, Other Charitable Purposes
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.missingpeople.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Missing People Limited
Registered
1993

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£3.8m£4.6m
  • 2024£4.0m£4.0m
  • 2023£3.5m£3.4m
Earlier years
  • 2022£3.6m£3.2m
  • 2021£3.5m£3.2m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 5% · Government grants 19%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

(A)TO PROVIDE COUNSELLING AND SUPPORT TO FAMILIES IN CONDITIONS OF NEED HARDSHIP OR PHYSICAL OR MENTAL DISTRESS AS A RESULT OF A MEMBER OF THEIR FAMILY HAVING DISAPPEARED WITHOUT TRACE; (B)TO PROVIDE HELP AND SUPPORT TO YOUNG PERSONS AND ADULTS WHO HAVE LEFT HOME WITHOUT INFORMING THEIR FAMILY AND FRIENDS OF THEIR WHEREABOUTS AND WHO ARE SUFFERING CONDITIONS OF NEED HARDSHIP OR PHYSICAL OR MENTAL DISTRESS AND (C)TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC IN THE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC PROBLEMS RESULTING FROM THE DISRUPTION TO FAMILY LIFE CAUSED BY THE DISAPPEARANCE OF A MEMBER OF THE FAMILY AND THE PROBLEMS CAUSED BY INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE DISAPPEARED WITHOUT TRACE.

Grants received

33 grants · £8,048,200 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 Support Trust · £4,100,000 (4 grants)
  • Home Office · £1,999,258 (14 grants)
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £1,523,836 (6 grants)
  • Department of Health and Social Care · £199,009 (2 grants)
  • City Bridge Trust · £105,520

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Community Fund £19,6602025-12-04
  • Postcode Support Trust £1,000,0002025-02-13
  • Department of Health and Social Care £33,8512024-03-01
  • Department of Health and Social Care £165,1582024-03-01
  • Postcode Support Trust £1,000,0002023-12-01
Board analysis for researchers

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.

10 trustees on the board

4.5y median 3y
average tenure
11y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

15y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

Portfolio (2)

10
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 10Other Charitable Purposes 10Disability 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.

Health and social care 11Professional services 8Manufacturing 5

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£3.8m 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.

3.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 4.8 in 2021

106 from 84 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.
24%
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
1020419
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 26 APR 1993, AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS 17 MAR 1994 AND 6 FEB 2007, AND BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME 22 FEB 2007, AND BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 26 SEPTEMBER 2007AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 09 MAR 2017
Companies House
Company number 02814202 · Active
Contact on the register
02083924590 · info@missingpeople.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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