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Registered charity · London

Canon Collins Trust

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £758k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th 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, Education/training, Economic/community Development/employment
Where
Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia and more
Website
www.canoncollins.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Canon Collins Trust
Registered
2004

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£758k£867k
  • 2024£697k£778k
  • 2023£969k£814k
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.9m£2.2m
  • 2021£1.3m£668k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

A) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC AND IN PARTICULAR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF THE PEOPLE OF SOUTHERN AFRICA WITH A PARTICULAR EMPHASIS ON SOUTH AFRICA;B) TO PROVIDE FOR THE RELIEF OF POVERTY BY THE PROVISION OF FUNDS FOR LEGAL SERVICES FOR POOR PERSONS IN COUNTRIES OUTSIDE THE UNITED KINGDOM AND WITH A PARTICULAR EMPHASIS ON SOUTHERN AFRICA;C) TO PROMOTE RESEARCH INTO THE LAW AND PROCEDURE OF FOREIGN LEGAL SYSTEMS AS THEY AFFECT POOR PERSONS AND TO PUBLISH THE RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH WITH A PARTICULAR EMPHASIS ON SOUTHERN AFRICA;D) SUCH OTHER GENERAL OBJECTS AS ARE CHARITABLE BY LAW.

Grants received

4 grants · £494,887 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.

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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.

8 trustees on the board

4.8y median 4y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

10.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

8
company-linked trustees

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

Economic/community Development/employment 8Education/training 8General Charitable Purposes 8

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

Education 9Health and social care 2Business services 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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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£697k 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.

2.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 1.6 in 2020

8 from 8 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
1102028
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 17/11/2003AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 17/08/2012AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 20/08/2012 as amended on 25 May 2022
Companies House
Company number 04965891 · Active
Contact on the register
020 8004 8362 · info@canoncollins.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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