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Global Charities

Global Charities is a registered charity (number 1091657) based in London, governed by 9 trustees. Latest income £6.8m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 25th October 2026.

Also known as For Full List of Working Names See Trustees Annual Report, Help A Capital Child, Help A London Child, The Classic FM Foundation, Global's Make Some Noise, Make Some Noise for Mental Health (Charity Commission)

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £6.8m (2025)
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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, Disability, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland
Website
www.makesomenoise.com (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Global Charities
Registered
2002

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£6.8m£6.8m
  • 2024£5.5m£6.1m
  • 2023£4.6m£4.6m
Earlier years
  • 2022£3.0m£4.0m
  • 2021£4.9m£4.1m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2021: Government grants 31%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

1) TO RELIEVE POVERTY, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS;2) TO PROMOTE THE PHYSICAL OR MENTAL WELFARE OF CHILDREN OR ADULTS IN NEED OF CARE AND ATTENTION; AND3) ANY SUCH OTHER OBJECT OR PURPOSE AS IS CHARITABLE UNDER THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES.

Grants received

8 grants · £9,867,312 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

  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £8,367,312 (2 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £1,000,000
  • Postcode Society Trust · £100,000
  • Postcode Places Trust · £100,000
  • Postcode Neighbourhood Trust · £100,000

Most recent

  • Postcode Places Trust £100,0002025-02-03
  • People's Postcode Trust £100,0002025-02-03
  • Postcode Neighbourhood Trust £100,0002025-02-03
  • Postcode Local Trust £100,0002025-02-03
  • Postcode Society Trust £100,0002025-02-03
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

2.9y median 2y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

9.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

Portfolio (1)

9
company-linked trustees

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

Disability 9General Charitable Purposes 9The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 9

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

Business services 10Professional services 6Health and social care 3

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£6.8m latest income
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.

2.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 3.7 in 2021

20 from 18 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
1091657
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 23/01/2002AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 09/04/2002AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 24/04/2006AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 16/10/2008AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 13/01/2010AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 22/07/2014
Companies House
Company number 04359098 · Active
Contact on the register
0345 606 0990 · contact@makesomenoise.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 25th October 2026
Labels
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