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Registered charity · London

Amnesty International UK Section Charitable Trust

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £24m (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
Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Burkina Faso, Greece, Senegal and more
Website
www.amnesty.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Amnesty International UK Section Charitable Trust
Registered
1996

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£24m£25m
  • 2023£23m£23m
  • 2022£24m£23m
Earlier years
  • 2021£22m£21m
  • 2020£19m£20m

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Income source mix, 2020: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE HUMAN RIGHTS (AS SET OUT IN THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OFHUMAN RIGHTS ("UDHR") AND SUBSEQUENT UNITED NATIONS CONVENTIONSAND DECLARATIONS AND IN REGIONAL CODES OF HUMAN RIGHTS WHICHINCORPORATE THE RIGHTS CONTAINED IN THE UDHR AND THOSE SUBSEQUENTCONVENTIONS AND DECLARATIONS) THROUGHOUT THE WORLD BY ALL OR ANY OF THEFOLLOWING MEANS:-(A) MONITORING ABUSES OF HUMAN RIGHTS(B) OBTAINING REDRESS FOR THE VICTIMS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE;(C) RELIEVING NEED AMONG THE VICTIMS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE;(D) RESEARCH INTO HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES;(E) EDUCATING THE PUBLIC ABOUT HUMAN RIGHTS(F) PROVIDING TECHNICAL ADVICE TO GOVERNMENT AND OTHERS ON HUMANRIGHTS MATTERS;(G) CONTRIBUTING TO THE SOUND ADMINISTRATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS LAW;(H) COMMENTING ON PROPOSED HUMAN RIGHTS LEGISLATION;(I) RAISING AWARENESS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES;(J) PROMOTING PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS;(K) PROMOTING RESPECT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AMONG INDIVIDUALS ANDCORPORATIONS;(L) INTERNATIONAL ADVOCACY OF HUMAN RIGHTS; AND(M) ELIMINATING INFRINGEMENTS OF HUMAN RIGHTS.

Grants received

14 grants · £12,508,000 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

Most recent

  • SHAREGIFT £50,0002025-02-14
  • Postcode Justice Trust £3,000,0002025-02-10
  • SHAREGIFT £1,0002024-10-09
  • SHAREGIFT £1,0002024-02-14
  • Postcode Justice Trust £3,000,0002023-12-01
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.

11 trustees on the board

4y median 2y
average tenure
21y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

Portfolio (3)

11
company-linked trustees

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

Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity 9Education/training 2General Charitable Purposes 2The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 2Amateur Sport 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 17Other services 5Arts and leisure 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£24.1m latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

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

160 from 146 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
1051681
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 16 DECEMBER 1995 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION PASSED ON 31 MARCH 2004, 10 OCTOBER 2005 & 10 MARCH 2008.AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 31 MAR 2016 as amended on 12 Dec 2019
Companies House
Company number 03139939 · Active
Contact on the register
02070331784 · amnestycompany.secretary@amnesty.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
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