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Registered charity · London

Medecins Sans Frontieres (UK)

  • 14 trustees
  • Income £95m (2024)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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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, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Overseas Aid/famine Relief
Where
Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Chad, Ethiopia and more
Website
www.msf.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Medecins Sans Frontieres (UK)
Registered
1993

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£95m£90m
  • 2023£85m£84m
  • 2022£77m£77m
Earlier years
  • 2021£68m£72m
  • 2020£73m£69m

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Charitable objects

TO RELIEVE AND PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND TO PROVIDE MEDICAL AID TO THE INJURED AND TO PROTECT AND PRESERVE GOOD HEALTH BY THE PROVISION OF MEDICAL SUPPLIES, PERSONNEL AND PROCEDURES CALCULATED TO OVERCOME DISEASE, INJURY OR MALNUTRITION IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD

Grants received

73 grants · £8,927,665 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.

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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.

2.2y median 2y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (14)

14
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 14Overseas Aid/famine Relief 14The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 14

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 15Professional services 5Education 2

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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£95.3m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2023 and 2024
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.

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

225 from 195 in 2020
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
1026588
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 14 SEPTEMBER 1993 AS AMENDED 30 MARCH 2001, 12 APRIL 2002, 5 AUGUST 2005, 29 MAY 2009 AND 5 JUNE 2009AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 13 MAY 2017 as amended on 19 May 2018 as amended on 20 May 2023 as amended on 18 May 2024
Companies House
Company number 02853011 · Active
Contact on the register
02074046600 · office-ldn@london.msf.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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