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Registered charity · Cornwall

Shelterbox Trust

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £18m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 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
Overseas Aid/famine Relief
Where
City Of London, Cornwall, Cameroon, Mozambique and more
Website
shelterbox.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Shelterbox Trust
Registered
2003

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£18m£22m
  • 2024£20m£23m
  • 2023£26m£23m
Earlier years
  • 2022£22m£18m
  • 2021£14m£12m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2021: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE TO PROVIDE ON A WORLDWIDE BASIS HUMANITARIAN RELIEF, AID AND ASSISTANCE FOR THE BENEFIT OF PEOPLE IN CHARITABLE NEED AFFECTED BY, OR VULNERABLE TO, DISASTER OR OTHER EVENTS, PARTICULARLY BY PROVIDING SHELTER

Grants received

5 grants · £31,090 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

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.

11 trustees on the board

2.5y median 2y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

Portfolio (2)

11
company-linked trustees

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

Overseas Aid/famine Relief 11General Charitable Purposes 2Disability 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 12Tech and media 4Business services 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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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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£20.1m 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.

7.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months

161 from 125 in 2020
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
1096479
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 09 DEC 2002AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 29 APR 2005AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 17 DEC 2010AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 05 MAR 2012AS REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 13 MAR 2012NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 17 JUN 2013AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 18 JUN 2015AS REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 24 JUN 2015AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 21 SEP 2020AS REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 22 SEP 2020 as amended on 04 Mar 2024 as amended on 28 Mar 2025
Companies House
Company number 04612652 · Active
Contact on the register
01872302600 · hello@shelterbox.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
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