Registered charity · London
NEW Economics Foundation
- 10 trustees
- Income £5.0m (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Adam SharplesChair · since 2024
- Anna HenryTrustee · since 2023
- Ben Michael PringleTrustee · since 2023
- Halla GunnarsdottirTrustee · since 2023
- Martin KoehringTrustee · since 2022
- Nicholas DeardenTrustee · since 2023
- Pascale Frazer-CarrollTrustee · since 2023
- Richard BryarsTrustee · since 2022
- Tariq KaziTrustee · since 2021
- Wing-Harn ChenTrustee · since 2025
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- Education/training, Economic/community Development/employment
- Where
- Throughout England And Wales
- Website
- www.neweconomics.org (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- NEW Economics Foundation
- Registered
- 1996
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£5.0m£4.9m
- 2024£4.9m£4.9m
- 2023£3.5m£3.5m
Earlier years
- 2022£3.1m£3.2m
- 2021£3.3m£3.6m
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 2%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
(A) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND UNDERTAKE RESEARCH FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC (AND TO PUBLISH THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH), PARTICULARLY IN ECONOMICS, CITIZENSHIP AND ENVIRONMENTAL, SOCIAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCES(B) TO PROMOTE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY (I) THE PRESERVATION, CONSERVATION AND THE PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE PRUDENT USE OF RESOURCES, (II) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE IN SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES AND (III) PURSUING SUCH OTHER RELATED CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY DETERMINE
Grants received
50 grants · £4,501,764 total360Giving 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
- Friends Provident Foundation · £1,389,881 (9 grants)
- Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, UK Branch · £519,140 (6 grants)
- The Tudor Trust · £341,000 (5 grants)
- Smallwood Trust · £305,625
- Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust · £299,425 (3 grants)
Most recent
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.
10 trustees on the board
- Adam Sharples Chair since 2024
- Anna Henry since 2023
- Ben Michael Pringle since 2023
- Halla Gunnarsdottir since 2023
- Martin Koehring since 2022
- Nicholas Dearden since 2023
- Pascale Frazer-Carroll since 2023
- Richard Bryars since 2022
- Tariq Kazi since 2021
- Wing-Harn Chen since 2025
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (10)
- Adam Sharples Chair since 2024
- Anna Henry since 2023
- Ben Michael Pringle since 2023
- Halla Gunnarsdottir since 2023
- Martin Koehring since 2022
- Nicholas Dearden since 2023
- Pascale Frazer-Carroll since 2023
- Richard Bryars since 2022
- Tariq Kazi since 2021
- Wing-Harn Chen since 2025
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
Gaps to watch
- Narrow spread of causes across the board
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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
1.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 1.6 in 2021
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1055254
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 01/05/1996AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 17/12/2012 as amended on 06 Jun 2019
- Companies House
- Company number 03193399 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 020 7820 6300 · info@neweconomics.org
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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