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The Funding Network

9 trustees
Income £778k (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th 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
Where: Throughout England And Wales
Website: www.thefundingnetwork.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company: The Funding Network
Registered: 2001

Income and spending

YearIncomeSpending
2025£778k£782k
2024£750k£750k
2023£888k£893k

Earlier years

2022£811k£765k
2021£824k£813k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

TO PAY OR APPLY THE FUNDS OF THE COMPANY TO OR TOWARDS OR IN FURTHERANCE OR ADVANCEMENT OR FOR THE BENEFIT OF SUCH ONE OR MORE CHARITIES, CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS OR CHARITABLE PURPOSES AND IF MORE THAN ONE IN SUCH SHARES AND IN SUCH MANNER AS THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE COMPANY THEREAFTER IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION FROM TIME TO TIME SHALL RESPECTIVELY SELECT AND THINK FIT.

Grants received

5 grants · £272,280 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

City Bridge Trust · £270,000 (4 grants)
Hazelhurst Trust · £2,280

Most recent

City Bridge Trust £175,0002023-02-09
City Bridge Trust £30,0002016-01-28
Hazelhurst Trust £2,2802013-06-18
City Bridge Trust £30,0002012-11-29
City Bridge Trust £35,0002012-01-12

Grants given

378 grants · £3,863,414 total

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Top recipients

Consortium+ · £79,575 (3 grants)
Children Heard and Seen · £57,497 (2 grants)
National Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (NGLHRC) · £50,318
Artis Foundation · £46,717 (2 grants)
ASEAN SOGIE Caucus · £45,601

Most recent

Artis Foundation £25,4362025-03-27
The Restart Project £19,5282025-03-27
The Vavengers £18,4672025-03-27
Family Volunteering Club £23,8592024-12-03
Hammersley Homes £21,6792024-12-03

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.

9 trustees on the board

1.3y median 1y

average tenure

longest tenure

trustees past 6 years

10.1y

average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (2)

Anja Batista Sonksen since 2024
Stephen Paul Adler since 2026

company-linked trustees

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

General Charitable Purposes 9Accommodation/housing 1Disability 1Education/training 1

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

Health and social care 10Other services 3Arts and leisure 1

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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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£778k 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.

1.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months

4 from 4 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: 1088315
Status: Registered
Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 3RD AUGUST 2000 as amended on 21 Mar 2024
Companies House: Company number 04046959 · Active
Contact on the register: 07717 524905 · info@thefundingnetwork.org.uk
Edition: Register edition compiled 20th 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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