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Registered charity · Bangkok

The Border Consortium

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £27m (2024)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 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
Overseas Aid/famine Relief, Economic/community Development/employment
Where
Burma, Thailand
Website
www.theborderconsortium.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Border Consortium
Registered
2005

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£27m£27m
  • 2023£22m£22m
  • 2022£21m£20m
Earlier years
  • 2021£24m£17m
  • 2020£15m£14m

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Income source mix, 2024: Government grants 13%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

(A) THE RELIEF OF CHARITABLE NEEDS OF DISPLACED PEOPLE OF BURMA BY THE PROVISION OF HUMANITARIAN AID AND ASSISTANCE;(B) TO DEVELOP THE CAPACITY AND SKILLS OF THE MEMBERS OF THE SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITY OF THE DISPLACED PEOPLE OF BURMA IN SUCH A WAY THAT THEY ARE ABLE TO PARTICIPATE MORE FULLY IN SOCIETY;(C) TO PROMOTE EQUALITY, DIVERSITY AND RACIAL HARMONY FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY RAISING AWARENESS OF THE NEEDS OF AND ISSUES AFFECTING THE DISPLACED PEOPLE OF BURMA; AND(D) TO PROMOTE HUMAN RIGHTS (AS SET OUT IN THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND SUBSEQUENT UNITED NATIONS CONVENTIONS AND DECLARATIONS) IN THE THAILAND BORDER AREA BY MONITORING AND RESEARCH.

Grants received

1 grant · £3,601,547 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

  • Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office · £3,601,547

Most recent

  • Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office £3,601,5472020-04-01
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

4.6y median 2.5y
average tenure
15y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.4y
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 8Overseas Aid/famine Relief 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.

Health and social care 8Other services 3Business services 2

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.

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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£26.6m 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.

1.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 1.8 in 2020

66 from 58 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
1109476
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 11/10/2004AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 04/05/2005AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 02/11/2012
Companies House
Company number 05255598 · Active
Contact on the register
+6622385027 · tbc@theborderconsortium.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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