The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 6th September 2026

Big Issue Trust

Registered charity 1042514 Registered since 1994

Operates: Throughout England

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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.

4 trustees on the board

3.5y median 3y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (4)

3
company-linked trustees

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

Disability 4Education/training 4The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 4

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

Finance 5Tech and media 4Other services 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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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£972k 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.

1.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 10.9 in 2021

0
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.

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

Also active in the same field

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitehttps://www.bigissue.com/invest/big-issue-invest-trust/
Emailenquiries@bigissueinvest.com
Phone02075263429
AddressBig Issue Trust, The Big Issue, 113-115 Fonthill Road, LONDON, N4 3HH

Finances

£971,725 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£847,508£515,700
2022£833,408£394,426
2023£338,872£604,718
2024£2,573,198£1,438,330
2025£971,725£1,734,728

What it does

What

Education/trainingThe Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of LivesDisabilityThe Prevention Or Relief Of PovertyAccommodation/housingAmateur SportEconomic/community Development/employment

Who

Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies

How

Provides Other Finance

Charitable objects

The charity's objects ("Objects") are to promote charitable purposes by the provision of grants, financial loans and other assistance in any of the following ways: (a) the provision or assistance in the provision of recreational facilities for persons who by reason of their youth age infirmity or disablement poverty or social and economic circumstances have need of such facilities or for members or the female members of the public at large, (b) the relief of poverty age and disability by the provision of housing for rental to those in need, (c) the advancement of education by the provision of charitable schools places of learning and educational facilities, (d) the advancement of education training and retraining particularly among the unemployed and the provision of work experience to the unemployed, (e) the advancement of education training and retraining and (in cases of need) financial support in setting up in a trade business or vocation or preparing for entering a profession trade business or employment generally or amongst the unemployed, (f) the promotion of such other charitable purposes as the directors may think fit.

Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 29/11/1994AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 28/10/1998AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 11/06/2008NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 30/06/2010AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 08 FEB 2018 as amended on 22 Mar 2018 as amended on 24 Apr 2025 as amended on 01 May 2025 as amended on 23 May 2025

Trustees (5)

4trustees
54median age
0aged 70+

Linked company (Companies House)

BIG Issue Trust · 02995859 · Active

PRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of 'Limited' exemption) · incorporated 29/11/1994

6 governing document(s) held from Companies House.

Connected charities (0)

No charities share a trustee (from current data).

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