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Ellen Macarthur Foundation

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £14m (2025)
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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
Education/training, Economic/community Development/employment
Where
Scotland, Isle Of Wight
Website
www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Ellen Macarthur Foundation
Registered
2009

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£14m£20m
  • 2024£15m£20m
  • 2023£21m£21m
Earlier years
  • 2022£17m£16m
  • 2021£18m£15m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC OF THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT AND THE PRUDENT USE OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ANDTO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENTOF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT AND TO PROMOTE STUDY AND RESEARCH IN SUCHSUBJECTS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AND DISSEMINATE THE USEFUL RESULTS.

Grants received

5 grants · £7,600,000 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.

Top funders

  • Postcode Earth Trust · £6,350,000 (4 grants)
  • Postcode Innovation Trust · £1,250,000

Most recent

  • Postcode Earth Trust £1,750,0002025-02-25
  • Postcode Earth Trust £1,500,0002023-12-01
  • Postcode Earth Trust £1,600,0002023-02-07
  • Postcode Innovation Trust £1,250,0002022-03-25
  • Postcode Earth Trust £1,500,0002022-02-10
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.

2y median 0y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

12.2y
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.

Economic/community Development/employment 8Education/training 8The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 1

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 13Finance 3Other services 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.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£14.0m 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.

3.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 4.7 in 2021

182 from 172 in 2021
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
1130306
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 7 MAY 2009 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION 22 JUNE 2009
Companies House
Company number 06897785 · Active
Contact on the register
01983296463 · info@ellenmacarthurfoundation.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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