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Registered charity · Newcastle upon Tyne

International Centre for Life Trust

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £7.2m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Other Charitable Purposes
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland
Website
www.life.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
International Centre for Life Trust
Registered
1996

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£7.2m£8.9m
  • 2024£7.1m£8.2m
  • 2023£6.9m£8.0m
Earlier years
  • 2022£6.6m£7.8m
  • 2021£4.7m£6.8m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

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

Charitable objects

1. THE EDUCATION OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC BY PROMOTING KNOWLEDGE OF GENETICS AND OF HEALTH ISSUES, AND,2. THE PROMOTION OF THE SCIENCE OF GENETICS, BY THE DISSEMINATION OF THE USEFUL RESULTS OF RESEARCH UNDERTAKEN, COMMISSIONED OR FUNDED

Grants received

7 grants · £2,383,971 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.

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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.

6.3y median 5y
average tenure
13y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

10.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

Portfolio (1)

7
company-linked trustees

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

Arts/culture/heritage/science 10Education/training 10The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 10

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

Professional services 12Education 3Arts 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.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£7.2m latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

0.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 3.9 in 2021

112 from 121 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.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1059607
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 11 JULY 1996 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS DATED 23 JULY 1996, 16 AUGUST 1996, 25 NOVEMBER 1996 AND 30 MARCH 2009
Companies House
Company number 03225820 · Active
Contact on the register
0191 2438222 · info@life.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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