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Registered charity · London

The Donald Gordon Third Foundation

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £1.7m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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Also 1 organisation acting as trustee: Terra Nova Trustees (Pty) Limited.

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, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
South Africa
Registered
2008

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.7m£1.0m
  • 2024£334k£375k
  • 2023£7.0m£17k
Earlier years
  • 2022£6k£9k
  • 2021£3k£3k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

3.1 THE ADVANCEMENT PROMOTION AND DEVELOPMENT OF AND ASSISTANCE WITH SCIENTIFIC MEDICAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH AND EDUCATION IN THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA AND THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE IN THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA:3.2 THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AMONG THE PUBLIC IN THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA;3.3 THE PROMOTION AND SUPPORT OF THE ARTS IN THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA; AND3.4 ANY OTHER PURPOSE OR PURPOSES WHICH IT COULD LAWFULLY UNDERTAKE AS A PUBLIC BENEFIT ORGANISATION IN SOUTH AFRICA AS CONTAINED IN PART 1 OF THE NINTH SCHEDULE TO THE ACT AND AS A CHARITY REGISTERED WITH THE CHARITY COMMISSION IN ENGLAND AND WALES

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

4.4y median 2y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

6.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

Portfolio (7)

1
company-linked trustees

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

Arts/culture/heritage/science 7General Charitable Purposes 7The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 7

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 5Business services 3Professional services 3

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.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£1.7m 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.

75.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 120.0 in 2021

0
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.
Qualified
Auditor's opinioniAuditor's opinionThe accounts_qualified flag on the latest filed annual return is True - the auditor qualified their opinion. A register flag, shown as filed.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1122870
Status
Registered
Governing document
TRUST DEED (DATED) 14 AUGUST 2007
Contact on the register
02070870000
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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