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Multiple Sclerosis International Federation

  • 18 trustees
  • Income £1.8m (2024)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability, Overseas Aid/famine Relief and 1 more
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Algeria, Argentina, Australia and more
Website
www.msif.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Multiple Sclerosis International Federation
Registered
2004

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£1.8m£1.8m
  • 2023£1.9m£2.1m
  • 2022£2.0m£2.4m
Earlier years
  • 2021£2.3m£2.2m
  • 2020£2.8m£2.3m
Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE COMPANY IS ESTABLISHED ARE TO SUPPORT AND RELIEVE PERSONS AFFECTED BY MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS AND ALLIED CONDITIONS WORLDWIDE BY:-1) PROMOTING, STIMULATING AND ENCOURAGING SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH WORLDWIDE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY THE DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE INTO THE CAUSES OF AND CURE AND TREATMENT FOR MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS AND ALLIED CONDITIONS WITH THE AIM OF ELIMINATING MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS;2) AIDING, SUPPORTING AND RELIEVING PERSONS WHO ARE AFFECTED BY MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS AND ALLIED CONDITIONS, TO ENCOURAGE THEM IN EVERY WAY POSSIBLE TO ACHIEVE THEIR FULL POTENTIAL AS MEMBERS OF SOCIETY BY IMPROVING THEIR QUALITY OF LIFE;PROVIDING INFORMATION, ADVICE AND SUPPORT TO FURTHER THE DEVELOPMENT AND WORK AND PROMOTE THE EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF VOLUNTARY NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS ORGANISATIONS OR THE FORMATION OF SUCH ORGANISATIONS;3) EDUCATING THE GENERAL PUBLIC ABOUT MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS BY, AMONGST OTHER THINGS, COLLECTING AND DISSEMINATING SCIENTIFIC AND EDUCATIONAL INFORMATION RELATING TO MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS;5) SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE.

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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.

18 trustees on the board

5.4y median 5y
average tenure
14y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (18)

16
company-linked trustees

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

Disability 18Education/training 18The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 18

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

Other services 17Education 1Health and social care 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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£1.8m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2023 and 2024
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.

5.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 5.0 in 2020

17 from 19 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
1105321
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 30 MARCH 2004 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 3 AUGUST 2004. as amended on 11 Apr 2019 as amended on 21 Jul 2021 as amended on 10 Oct 2024
Companies House
Company number 05088553 · Active
Contact on the register
02076201911
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
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