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Peace Direct

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £5.3m (2024)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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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
Education/training, Overseas Aid/famine Relief, Economic/community Development/employment, Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity and 1 more
Where
Hackney, Burundi, Nigeria, Pakistan and more
Website
peacedirect.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Peace Direct
Registered
2008

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£5.3m£4.4m
  • 2023£4.5m£4.1m
  • 2022£4.3m£4.0m
Earlier years
  • 2021£3.9m£3.4m
  • 2020£4.1m£3.8m

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Income source mix, 2023: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

1.TO PROMOTE CONFLICT RESOLUTION AND RECONCILIATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT WITH A VIEW TO RELIEVING SUFFERING, POVERTY AND DISTRESS AND BUILDING AND MAINTAINING SOCIAL COHESION AND TRUST WITHIN AND BETWEEN COMMUNITIES BY: A. INVESTIGATING AND IDENTIFYING PROBABLE CAUSES OF CONFLICT B. EXAMINING PROBABLE SOLUTIONS TO THE CONFLICT C. MEDIATING WITH PARTIES TO THE CONFLICT AND OTHERS TOGETHER TO DISCUSS POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS ENABLING THEM TO BUILD RELATIONSHIPS OF TRUST D. RECOMMENDING TO THE PARTIES INVOLVED MEASURES WHICH ARE LIKELY TO RESULT IN THE RESOLUTION OR PREVENTION OF THE CONFLICT OR THE REDUCTION OF ANY HUMANITARIAN CRISIS THAT MAY ENSUE FROM THE CONFLICTPROVIDED THAT ALL ACTIVITIES SHALL BE BALANCED AND SHALL MAINTAIN OR ENHANCE THE CHARITY'S COMMITMENT TO REMAINING IMPARTIAL, RESPECT FOR THE RULE OF LAW, INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNISED HUMAN RIGHTS AND PRINCIPLES OF NON-VIOLENCE. 2.TO PROMOTE EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY AND RACIAL AND RELIGIOUS HARMONY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY:A. ADVANCING EDUCATION AND RAISING AWARENESS IN EQUALITY AND DIVERSITYB. PROMOTING ACTIVITIES TO FOSTER UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN PEOPLE FROM DIVERSE BACKGROUNDS AND TO PROMOTE GOOD RELATIONS C. PROMOTING KNOWLEDGE AND MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN DIFFERENT RACIAL AND RELIGIOUS GROUPS D. CULTIVATING A SENTIMENT IN FAVOUR OF EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY 3. TO PROMOTE DOMESTIC HUMAN RIGHTS BY:A. OBTAINING REDRESS FOR THE VICTIMS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSEB. CONTRIBUTING TO THE SOUND ADMINISTRATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS LAW C. PROMOTING RESPECT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AMONG INDIVIDUALS D. ELIMINATING INFRINGEMENTS OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN THIS CLAUSE 'DOMESTIC HUMAN RIGHTS' SHALL MEAN THOSE RIGHTS WHICH ARE ENSHRINED OR INCORPORATED INTO THE DOMESTIC LAW OF THE COUNTRY IN WHICH IT IS PROPOSED TO PROMOTE THOSE RIGHTS.

Grants received

10 grants · £4,866,459 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.

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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

2.9y median 2y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

9
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 9Education/training 9Overseas Aid/famine Relief 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.

Professional services 9Other services 4Tech and media 2

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£5.3m 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.

2.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 1.3 in 2020

31 from 24 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
1123241
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 20/12/2007AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 06/03/2009
Companies House
Company number 06458464 · Active
Contact on the register
02034225549 · info@peacedirect.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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