Registered charity · Oxfordshire
The Helen Hamlyn Trust
- 10 trustees
- Income £6.5m (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Lady HamlynChair · since 2000
- Baroness Gail RebuckTrustee · since 2022
- Brendan Hurley CahillTrustee · since 2001
- DR Kate GavronTrustee · since 2000
- Dr Sarah Elizabeth ThomasTrustee · since 2023
- Lord Ara Warkais DarziTrustee · since 2018
- Margaret Roice O'RorkeTrustee · since 2001
- Professor Dame Alison Margaret PeacockTrustee · since 2018
- Professor Deborah Anne SwallowTrustee · since 2005
- Stephen Richard LewinTrustee · since 2015
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, Arts/culture/heritage/science and 2 more
- Where
- Throughout England, India, Portugal, United States and more
- Linked company
- The Helen Hamlyn Trust
- Registered
- 2001
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£6.5m£6.3m
- 2024£5.2m£6.8m
- 2023£2.3m£2.5m
Earlier years
- 2022£7.4m£7.6m
- 2021£2.2m£2.7m
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Charitable objects
THE GENERAL PURPOSES OF SUCH CHARITABLE BODIES OR FOR SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL THINK FIT WHETHER IN ENGLAND AND WALES OR ELSEWHERE
Grants received
19 grants · £37,822,955 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
- Paul Hamlyn Foundation · £37,822,955 (19 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
- Lady Hamlyn Chair since 2000
- Brendan Hurley Cahill since 2001
- Baroness Gail Rebuck since 2022
- DR Kate Gavron since 2000
- Dr Sarah Elizabeth Thomas since 2023
- Lord Ara Warkais Darzi since 2018
- Margaret Roice O'Rorke since 2001
- Professor Dame Alison Margaret Peacock since 2018
- Professor Deborah Anne Swallow since 2005
- Stephen Richard Lewin since 2015
Trustees past 6 years
- Lady Hamlyn Chair since 2000
- Brendan Hurley Cahill since 2001
- DR Kate Gavron since 2000
- Lord Ara Warkais Darzi since 2018
- Margaret Roice O'Rorke since 2001
- Professor Dame Alison Margaret Peacock since 2018
- Professor Deborah Anne Swallow since 2005
- Stephen Richard Lewin since 2015
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (9)
- Lady Hamlyn Chair since 2000
- Brendan Hurley Cahill since 2001
- Baroness Gail Rebuck since 2022
- DR Kate Gavron since 2000
- Dr Sarah Elizabeth Thomas since 2023
- Lord Ara Warkais Darzi since 2018
- Margaret Roice O'Rorke since 2001
- Professor Deborah Anne Swallow since 2005
- Stephen Richard Lewin since 2015
Portfolio (1)
- Professor Dame Alison Margaret Peacock since 2018
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
- Several long-serving trustees could step down together
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
7.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 26.3 in 2021
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1084839
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATION 27TH NOVEMBER 2000 as amended on 03 Jul 2019
- Companies House
- Company number 04115082 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 07969811531 · john.roche@helenhamlyntrust.org
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 27th 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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