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Registered charity · London

The Apax Foundation

The Apax Foundation is a registered charity (number 1112845) based in London, governed by 9 trustees and chaired by SIR Ronald Mourad Cohen since 2006. Latest income £1.9m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 18th October 2026.

Also known as Apax Foundation (Charity Commission)

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £1.9m (2025)
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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
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Amateur Sport and 2 more
Where
Denmark, Italy, Ireland, Throughout England And Wales and more
Linked company
The Apax Foundation
Registered
2006

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.9m£3.6m
  • 2024£2.1m£4.0m
  • 2023£2.9m£3.0m
Earlier years
  • 2021£1.9m£3.4m
  • 2020£4.1m£6.0m

Income trend, 2020 to 2025.

Charitable objects

(1) THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, EITHER GENERALLY OR INDIVIDUALLY, OF PEOPLE LIVING IN SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DEPRIVED AREAS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND OVERSEAS THROUGH THE PROVISION OF GRANTS, GOODS OR SERVICES;(2) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF PEOPLE BY;(A) THE CREATION OF A SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMME AT A LEADING BUSINESS SCHOOL;(B) PROVIDING FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE AND SUPPORT TO FACILITATE THE HOLDING OF COURSES AND CONFERENCES AND TO ASSIST WITH THE WIDER DISSEMINATION OF KNOWLEDGE FROM SUCH EVENTS; AND(C) AWARDING GRANTS OR MAINTENANCE ALLOWANCES TO INDIVIDUALS TO ENABLE THEM TO TAKE PART IN SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMMES AND ATTEND COURSES AND CONFERENCES IN FURTHERANCE OF THEIR EDUCATIONIN PARTICULAR WITH A VIEW TO ADVANCING EDUCATION IN ENTREPRENEURIAL AND OTHER BUSINESS SKILLS.(3) TO FURTHER SUCH OTHER PURPOSES WHICH ARE CHARITABLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS THE DIRECTORS THINK FIT.

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.

9 trustees on the board

10.4y median 11y
average tenure
20y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

16y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (2)

9
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 9General Charitable Purposes 9The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 9

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

Finance 28Business services 15Professional services 7

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£1.9m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025
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.

120.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months

1
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
1112845
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 23 DECEMBER 2005 as amended on 18 Dec 2025
Companies House
Company number 05662690 · Active
Contact on the register
02078726300 · foundation@apax.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 18th October 2026
Labels
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