Registered charity · Hampshire
The Borrow Foundation
- 5 trustees
- Income £27m (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources
Who leads it
- Professor Andrew John Rugg-GunnChair · since 2003
- Nigel BorrowTrustee · since 1993
- Professor Jonathon Timothy NewtonTrustee · since 2023
- Professor Jukka Heikki MeurmanTrustee · since 2024
- Professor Lorna Margaret Davidson MacphersonTrustee · since 2023
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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People on this board also serve on 1 other charity:
- Oral Health Foundation · 1 shared trustee
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About
- What it does
- The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
- Where
- Cambodia, Chile, Sweden, Thailand and more
- Website
- www.borrowfoundation.org (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- The Borrow Foundation
- Registered
- 1997
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£27m£1.9m
- 2024£1.8m£1.7m
- 2023£2.0m£1.7m
Earlier years
- 2022£1.5m£1.4m
- 2021£1.8m£1.5m
Charitable objects
THE PREVENTION OF ORAL DISEASE AND THE PROMOTION OF ORAL HEALTH AND OF ORAL HEALTH EDUCATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC.
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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.
5 trustees on the board
- Professor Andrew John Rugg-Gunn Chair since 2003
- Nigel Borrow since 1993
- Professor Jonathon Timothy Newton since 2023
- Professor Jukka Heikki Meurman since 2024
- Professor Lorna Margaret Davidson Macpherson since 2023
Trustees past 6 years
- Professor Andrew John Rugg-Gunn Chair since 2003
- Nigel Borrow since 1993
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (4)
- Professor Andrew John Rugg-Gunn Chair since 2003
- Nigel Borrow since 1993
- Professor Jukka Heikki Meurman since 2024
- Professor Lorna Margaret Davidson Macpherson since 2023
Portfolio (1)
- Professor Jonathon Timothy Newton since 2023
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
120.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 80.0 in 2021
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1060308
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 17 JANUARY 1997 AND AMENDED ON 24 MARCH 2004.
- Companies House
- Company number 03303900 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 02392262222 · enquiries@borrowfoundation.org
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 13th September 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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