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Registered charity · London

Protect (Whistleblowing Advice) Limited

Protect (Whistleblowing Advice) Limited is a registered charity (number 1025557) based in London, governed by 9 trustees and chaired by Lucy Mclynn since 2023. Latest income £1.1m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 18th October 2026.

Also known as The Whistleblowing Charity (Charity Commission)

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £1.1m (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
Education/training, Economic/community Development/employment
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.protect-advice.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Protect (Whistleblowing Advice) Limited
Registered
1993

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.1m£1.2m
  • 2024£1.1m£1.0m
  • 2023£1.0m£1.1m
Earlier years
  • 2022£971k£842k
  • 2021£878k£799k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 13%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE ETHICAL STANDARDS OF CONDUCT AND COMPLIANCE WITH THE LAW BY GOVERNMENTAL, INDUSTRIAL, COMMERCIAL, VOLUNTARY SECTOR AND PROFESSIONAL ORGANISATIONS IN THEIR ADMINISTRATION AND MANAGEMENT, TREATMENT OF PERSONNEL, HEALTH SAFETY AND COMMERCIAL PRACTICES AND PROTECTION OF THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT AND IN FURTHERANCE OF SUCH OBJECTS BUT NOT OTHERWISE TO UNDERTAKE CATERGORIES OF WORK AS DEFINED IN CLAUSE 3 OF THE MEMORANDUM

Grants received

6 grants · £380,202 total

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Most recent

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.

9 trustees on the board

3.2y median 2y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

12.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (2)

9
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 9Economic/community Development/employment 8Arts/culture/heritage/science 1General Charitable Purposes 1The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 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 13Education 3Health and social care 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£1.1m latest income
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.

2.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 3.0 in 2021

21 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
1025557
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 26/08/1993NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 19/09/2013AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 20 AUG 2018
Companies House
Company number 02849833 · Active
Contact on the register
02031172520 · whistle@protect-advice.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 18th October 2026
Labels
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