Registered charity · Buckinghamshire
Equality NOW
- 7 trustees
- Income £2.9m (2024)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources
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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
- Education/training, Other Charitable Purposes
- Where
- Throughout England And Wales
- Website
- www.equalitynow.org (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Equality NOW
- Registered
- 2005
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2024£2.9m£2.7m
- 2023£2.1m£2.4m
- 2022£2.3m£1.8m
Earlier years
- 2021£1.5m£1.3m
- 2020£982k£1.0m
Income trend, 2020 to 2024.
Charitable objects
TO PROMOTE THE DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS (AS DEFINED IN THIS CLAUSE) OF WOMEN AND IN PARTICULAR:1. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC BY CARRYING OUT RESEARCH INTO THE MAINTENANCE AND OBSERVANCE OF HUMAN RIGHTS, PARTICULARLY AS RELATES TO WOMEN, AND TO PUBLISH THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH;2. TO PROMOTE INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY RAISING PUBLIC AWARENESS OF INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS, PARTICULARLY AS RELATES TO WOMEN, BY DISSEMINATING MATERIALS REGARDING THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF WOMEN AND THE VIOLATION OF SUCH HUMAN RIGHTS;3. TO PROCURE, THROUGH INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS ADVOCACY, THE ABOLITION OF DISCRIMINATION AND VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN;4. TO PROVIDE RELIEF TO NEEDY VICTIMS OF BREACHES OF HUMAN RIGHTS, PARTICULARLY WOMEN;"DOMESTIC HUMAN RIGHTS" MEANS THOSE HUMAN RIGHTS WHICH:(1) CONSTITUTE FREEDOM FROM GENOCIDE, SLAVERY OR THE SLAVE TRADE, UNLAWFUL FORCED LABOUR, EXTRA-JUDICIAL KILLING OR TORTURE; OR(2) ARE ENSHRINED OR INCORPORATED INTO THE DOMESTIC LAW OF THE COUNTRY IN WHICH IT IS SOUGHT TO PROMOTE THOSE RIGHTS; OR(3) DEFINED IN ANY INTERNATIONAL TREATY ON HUMAN RIGHTS (INCLUDING THE EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOMS OF 1950, AND ANY SUCH DECLARATION RESOLUTION OR CONVENTION OF THE UNITED NATIONS OR ANY OF ITS ORGANS OR AGENCIES OR ANY TREATY OR INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT ENTERED INTO BY ANY MEMBER OF THE UNITED NATIONS THAT IS REGISTERED UNDER ARTICLE 102(1) OF THE UNITED NATIONS CHARTER, INCLUDING IN ALL CASES ANY SUPPORTING DOCUMENT AND ANY SUBSEQUENT AMENDMENT AND INCLUDING THOSE RULES AND LAWS WHICH FALL INTO THIS CATEGORY AND WHICH MAY BE DESCRIBED AS "INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW" WHICH CAN BE ENFORCED IN RELEVANT INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL)."INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS" MEANS ANY RIGHTS SECURED BY INTERNATIONAL LAW, WHICH DO NOT FALL WITHIN THE DEFINITION OF DOMESTIC HUMAN RIGHTS.
Grants received
1 grant · £444,465 total360Giving 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
- Comic Relief · £444,465
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.
7 trustees on the board
- Chadia El Meouchi since 2022
- Julia Mary Middleton since 2024
- Melissa Berman since 2025
- Michelle Ann Harrison since 2026
- Shalin Punn since 2025
- Sharmila Sinha since 2023
- Yasmin Waljee since 2023
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (7)
- Chadia El Meouchi since 2022
- Julia Mary Middleton since 2024
- Melissa Berman since 2025
- Michelle Ann Harrison since 2026
- Shalin Punn since 2025
- Sharmila Sinha since 2023
- Yasmin Waljee since 2023
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
Gaps to watch
- 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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
4.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1107613
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 09/10/2003AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 11/01/2005AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 14/12/2015AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 21 MAY 2016 as amended on 07 Mar 2019 as amended on 19 Jul 2022
- Companies House
- Company number 04926476 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 07445699371 · ukinfo@equalitynow.org
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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