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Registered charity · London

The Pennies Foundation

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £16m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources

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, Other Charitable Purposes
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Ireland, Scotland, Northern Ireland and more
Website
www.pennies.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Pennies Foundation
Registered
2008

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£16m£16m
  • 2024£11m£11m
  • 2023£9.4m£9.4m
Earlier years
  • 2022£7.4m£7.6m
  • 2021£6.5m£6.5m
Charitable objects

1 THE PROMOTION OF THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR IN PARTICULAR (BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY) BY ENCOURAGING AND FACILITATING CHARITABLE GIVING, ASSISTING IN THE APPLICATION OF FUNDS FOR CHARITABLE PURPOSES AND MONITORING THE USE OF SUCH FUNDS BY CHARITABLE ORGANISATIONS;2 THE PROMOTION OF THE EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF CHARITIES AND THE EFFECTIVE USE OF CHARITABLE RESOURCES IN PARTICULAR (BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY) BY PROVIDING ADVICE TO CHARITIES AND ORGANISATIONS SEEKING TO MAXIMISE CHARITABLE GIVING, EXCHANGING INFORMATION WITH SUCH CHARITIES AND ORGANISATIONS AND PROVIDING TECHNOLOGY AND INFRASTRUCTURE DESIGNED TO MAKE IT EASIER TO GIVE TO CHARITY; AND3 SUCH OTHER PURPOSES THAT ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TOTIME THINK FIT (“THE OBJECTS”).

Board analysis for researchers

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.

6y median 5.5y
average tenure
12y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

13.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (1)

8
company-linked trustees

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

General Charitable Purposes 8Other 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.

Property 57Finance 24Professional services 18

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£11.5m latest income · income exceeded spending 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.

1.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 3.1 in 2020

20 from 15 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
1122489
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 06/11/2007NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 16/01/2012AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 23/01/2012AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 10/12/2013AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 21 SEP 2017 as amended on 21 Sep 2017 as amended on 12 Aug 2019 as amended on 11 Aug 2025
Companies House
Company number 06418982 · Active
Contact on the register
02076009286 · info@pennies.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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