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Registered charity · Uk

Business and Human Rights Resource Centre

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £5.0m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
Education/training, Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity
Where
Brazil, Cambodia, Colombia, Germany and more
Website
www.business-humanrights.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Business and Human Rights Resource Centre
Registered
2003

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£5.0m£5.1m
  • 2024£5.1m£4.7m
  • 2023£4.3m£4.0m
Earlier years
  • 2022£2.2m£3.5m
  • 2021£4.2m£3.3m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2022: Government grants 12%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE COMPANY'S OBJECT IS THE PROMOTION OF INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY: (3.1.) ADVANCING THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC BY DEVELOPING AN INDEPENDENT, INTERNATIONAL, PUBLICLY ACCESSIBLE ONLINE LIBRARY AND RESOURCE CENTRE FOR THOSE SEEKING A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES RELATING TO BUSINESS; AND/OR (3.2.) RAISING PUBLIC AWARENESS AND CULTIVATING A SENTIMENT IN FAVOUR OF INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS BY USING THE INTERNET TO DISSEMINATE EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS PROVIDED THAT THIS DOES NOT EXTEND TO PROMOTING DIRECTLY CHANGES IN LAW OR GOVERNMENT POLICY OR THE ADMINISTRATIVE DECISION OF GOVERNMENT AUTHORITIES.FOR THE PURPOSES OF THE MEMORANDUM "BUSINESS" SHALL MEAN THE INVOLVEMENT IN TRADE, MANUFACTURING, FINANCE, INVESTMENT AND OTHER COMMERCIAL ACTIVITIES BY COMMERCIAL, GOVERNMENTAL AND NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATIONS AND "INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS" SHALL MEAN RIGHTS ARISING UNDER OR BY VIRTUE OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS ACT 1998 (A UK ACT OF PARLIAMENT) AND OTHER RIGHTS RECURRED BY INTERNATIONAL LAW.

Grants received

1 grant · £99,666 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.

12 trustees on the board

6.5y median 7.5y
average tenure
12y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (12)

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 12Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity 12

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 10Professional services 1

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together
  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

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£5.0m 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.

2.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 1.7 in 2021

38 from 48 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
1096664
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED ON 07 OCTOBER 2002 AS AMENDED BY WRITTEN RESOLUTION DATED 12 MARCH 2003
Companies House
Company number 04555494 · Active
Contact on the register
02071830283 · finance@business-humanrights.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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