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The Cochrane Collaboration

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £11m (2024)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th 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
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Where
Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil and more
Website
www.cochrane.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Cochrane Collaboration
Registered
1995

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£11m£11m
  • 2023£9.7m£9.4m
  • 2022£8.9m£7.9m
Earlier years
  • 2021£7.7m£9.1m
  • 2020£13m£9.0m

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Income source mix, 2024: Government contracts under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION OF PUBLIC HEALTH THROUGH THE PREPARATION, MAINTENANCE AND PROMOTION OF THE ACCESSIBILITY OF SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS OF THE EFFECTS OF HEALTH CARE OR ANY OTHER CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT

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.

3.4y median 2y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

6.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (2)

7
company-linked trustees

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

The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 8Arts/culture/heritage/science 1Disability 1Education/training 1Religious Activities 1The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 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 9Professional services 2Hospitality 1

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£10.5m 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.

10.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 7.3 in 2020

89 from 73 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
1045921
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 10/04/1995AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 03/10/2004AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 30/10/2013AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 22 DEC 2016 as amended on 16 Dec 2020 as amended on 16 Dec 2020
Companies House
Company number 03044323 · Active
Contact on the register
02071837503 · admin@cochrane.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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