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Registered charity · London

World Obesity Federation

  • 15 trustees
  • Income £2.4m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Where
City Of Westminster
Website
www.WORLDOBESITY.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
World Obesity Federation
Registered
1999

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£2.4m£2.0m
  • 2024£2.1m£2.0m
  • 2023£948k£1.2m
Earlier years
  • 2022£2.3m£2.3m
  • 2021£2.7m£2.6m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO RELIEVE SICKNESS AND PRESERVE AND PROTECT HEALTH BY DEVELOPING A DEEPER UNDERSTANDING OF THE CAUSES OF OBESITY AND ITS PREVENTION AND MANAGEMENT BY HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS, HEALTH RELATED ORGANISATIONS, GOVERNMENTS AND THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY.

Grants received

2 grants · £23,186 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

  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology · £23,186 (2 grants)

Most recent

  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology £7,4352024-01-22
  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology £15,7512024-01-22
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.

2.7y median 2y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (15)

10
company-linked trustees

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

Education/training 15General Charitable Purposes 15The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 15

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

Other services 10

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£2.4m latest income · income exceeded spending 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.

8.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 5.2 in 2021

18 from 23 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
1076981
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 08/07/1999AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 24/08/2002AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 05/11/2013AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 03 MAY 2016 as amended on 07 Jul 2020 as amended on 07 Jul 2020 as amended on 12 Jul 2023
Companies House
Company number 03802726 · Active
Contact on the register
0207 3241919 · jhunter@worldobesity.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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