Registered charity · London
Sense International
- 14 trustees
- Income £3.6m (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Raaxeet Kumar Harakhchand Haria ShahChair · since 2019
- Dilnaz KhambataTrustee · since 2025
- Emma Louise CrabtreeTrustee · since 2026
- Joseph CollenetteTrustee · since 2025
- Kiran VirdeeTrustee · since 2023
- Lauren WattersTrustee · since 2019
- Marilyn SwinneyTrustee · since 2026
- Nicholas CorbyTrustee · since 2017
- Sian Tesni Copeland RobertsTrustee · since 2024
- Simon GallowTrustee · since 2025
- Soumya SinghTrustee · since 2026
- Sunil ShahTrustee · since 2017
- Suzi NanderaTrustee · since 2023
- Vivienne HoskinsTrustee · 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, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty and 2 more
- Where
- Bangladesh, India, Kenya, Peru and more
- Website
- www.senseinternational.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Sense International
- Registered
- 1999
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£3.6m£3.3m
- 2024£3.1m£2.8m
- 2023£2.3m£3.0m
Earlier years
- 2022£2.5m£2.6m
- 2021£2.3m£2.5m
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 24%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
TO RELIEVE PERSONS WHO ARE DEAFBLIND OR WHO HAVE A HEARING OR VISION IMPAIRMENT, INCLUDING THOSE WITH ADDITIONAL IMPAIRMENTS OR PERSONS WHO HAVE MULTIPLE DISABILITIES IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY:SUPPORTING AND PROMOTING THE INTERESTS OF THE BENEFICIAL CLASSPROMOTING ACTION ON BEHALF OF THE BENEFICIAL CLASS IN ANY COUNTRY OF THE WORLDPROMOTING ACTIONS ON PREVENTION OF THE DISABILITIES OF THE BENEFICIAL CLASS AND TO UNDERTAKE OR PROMOTE RESEARCH.
Grants received
13 grants · £2,532,892 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
- The National Lottery Community Fund · £2,489,989 (11 grants)
- Educational Opportunity Foundation · £39,903
- The James Tudor Foundation · £3,000
Most recent
- The National Lottery Community Fund
- The National Lottery Community Fund
- The National Lottery Community Fund
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.
14 trustees on the board
- Raaxeet Kumar Harakhchand Haria Shah Chair since 2019
- Dilnaz Khambata since 2025
- Emma Louise Crabtree since 2026
- Joseph Collenette since 2025
- Kiran Virdee since 2023
- Lauren Watters since 2019
- Marilyn Swinney since 2026
- Nicholas Corby since 2017
- Sian Tesni Copeland Roberts since 2024
- Simon Gallow since 2025
- Soumya Singh since 2026
- Sunil Shah since 2017
- Suzi Nandera since 2023
- Vivienne Hoskins since 2025
Trustees past 6 years
- Raaxeet Kumar Harakhchand Haria Shah Chair since 2019
- Lauren Watters since 2019
- Nicholas Corby since 2017
- Sunil Shah since 2017
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (14)
- Raaxeet Kumar Harakhchand Haria Shah Chair since 2019
- Dilnaz Khambata since 2025
- Emma Louise Crabtree since 2026
- Joseph Collenette since 2025
- Kiran Virdee since 2023
- Lauren Watters since 2019
- Marilyn Swinney since 2026
- Nicholas Corby since 2017
- Sian Tesni Copeland Roberts since 2024
- Simon Gallow since 2025
- Soumya Singh since 2026
- Sunil Shah since 2017
- Suzi Nandera since 2023
- Vivienne Hoskins 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.
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 0.0 in 2021
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1076497
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 29/03/1999AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 14/06/1999AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 25/02/2009AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 05 SEP 2017 as amended on 22 Sep 2021
- Companies House
- Company number 03742986 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 0300 330 9260 · kavita.prasad@senseinternational.org.uk
- 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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