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Registered charity · London

The Sickle Cell Society

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £1.4m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 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
Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty and 2 more
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.sicklecellsociety.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Sickle Cell Society
Registered
1995

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.4m£1.1m
  • 2024£992k£727k
  • 2023£774k£644k
Earlier years
  • 2022£872k£677k
  • 2021£790k£605k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 22% · Government grants 32%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE CHARITY’S OBJECTS (“OBJECTS”) ARE:(1) THE RELIEF OF PERSONS LIVING WITH SICKLE CELL DISEASE;(2) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AMONG MEMBERS OF THE IMMEDIATE FAMILY OF PERSONS WHO ARE SUFFERING, OR WHO, IMMEDIATELY BEFORE THEIR DEATH, SUFFERED FROM SICKLE CELL DISEASE;(3) THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION FOR SUCH PERSONS AND FOR SUCH IMMEDIATE MEMBERS OF THEIR FAMILIES HAVING NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY, OR DISABLEMENT, POVERTY OR SOCIAL ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR SUCH PERSONS;(4) TO ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION IN SICKLE CELL DISEASE BY CARRYING OUT OR ASSISTING IN CARRYING OUT RESEARCH INTO THE CAUSES, EFFECTS AND TREATMENT OF SICKLE CELL DISEASE AND TO DISSEMINATE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH.

Grants received

11 grants · £583,726 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

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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.

8 trustees on the board

2.8y median 3.5y
average tenure
4y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
6.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

6
company-linked trustees

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

Disability 8Education/training 8The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 8

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 6

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£1.4m latest income · income exceeded spending 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.

8.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 6.4 in 2021

15 from 12 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.
54%
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
1046631
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 26/07/1993AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 09/01/1995AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 20/07/2013
Companies House
Company number 02840865 · Active
Contact on the register
020 8961 7795 · info@sicklecellsociety.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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