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Registered charity · London

Media Legal Defence Initiative

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £3.0m (2024)
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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
Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity
Where
Azerbaijan, Cameroon, Colombia, India and more
Website
www.mediadefence.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Media Legal Defence Initiative
Registered
2009

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£3.0m£3.0m
  • 2023£2.9m£2.9m
  • 2022£2.6m£2.3m
Earlier years
  • 2021£2.1m£2.0m
  • 2020£2.8m£2.8m

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Charitable objects

(A) TO PROMOTE HUMAN RIGHTS (AS SET OUT IN THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS, SUBSEQUENT UNITED NATIONS CONVENTIONS AND DECLARATIONS AND OTHER INTERNATIONAL TREATIES AND LAWS) THROUGHOUT THE WORLD IN PARTICULAR BY (BUT NOT LIMITED TO) PROTECTING FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND THE RIGHT TO FREE EXPRESSION, BY ALL OR ANY OF THE FOLLOWING MEANS:1 MONITORING ABUSES OF HUMAN RIGHTS2 OBTAINING REDRESS FOR THE VICTIMS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE3 RELIEVING NEED AMONG THE VICTIMS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE4 RESEARCH INTO HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES5 PROVIDING TECHNICAL ADVICE TO GOVERNMENT AND OTHERS ON HUMAN RIGHTS MATTERS6 CONTRIBUTING TO THE SOUND ADMINISTRATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS LAW7 COMMENTING ON PROPOSED HUMAN RIGHTS LEGISLATION8 RAISING AWARENESS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES9 PROMOTING PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS10 PROMOTING RESPECT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AMONG INDIVIDUALS AND CORPORATIONS11 ADVOCACY OF HUMAN RIGHTS12 ELIMINATING INFRINGEMENTS OF HUMAN RIGHTS(B) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT LIMITED TO EDUCATION IN JOURNALISM, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND THE LAW

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.

10 trustees on the board

3.8y median 4y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

10
company-linked trustees

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

Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity 10

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

Business services 13Other services 3Education 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£3.0m 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.

4.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 1.5 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
1128789
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 16/06/2008AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 17/03/2009AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 19/11/2012 as amended on 09 Aug 2023
Companies House
Company number 06621203 · Active
Contact on the register
08008405509 · info@mediadefence.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
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