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Social Business Trust

Social Business Trust is a registered charity (number 1136151) based in London, governed by 10 trustees and chaired by Larissa Joy since 2018. Latest income £7.1m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 18th October 2026.

Also known as Scale-Up (Charity Commission)

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £7.1m (2025)
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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland
Website
www.socialbusinesstrust.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Social Business Trust
Registered
2010

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£7.1m£7.2m
  • 2024£8.6m£8.6m
  • 2023£6.3m£6.5m
Earlier years
  • 2022£4.3m£4.1m
  • 2021£3.8m£3.6m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY (THE OBJECTS) ARE TO PURSUE ANY EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE OBJECTS AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION THINK FIT BY ANY MEANS INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO PROVIDING GRANTS OR OTHER FORMS OF FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE, MATERIALS OR ASSISTANCE IN KIND.

Grants received

1 grant · 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

Most recent

  • Nesta Amount not published2014-03-25
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

7.4y median 7y
average tenure
13y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

13.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (3)

9
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 10Education/training 2The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 2Amateur Sport 1Arts/culture/heritage/science 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.

Finance 55Arts and leisure 9Professional services 7

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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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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£7.1m 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.

0.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 2.3 in 2021

6 from 6 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
1136151
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES 4 MAY 2010. CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 11 NOVEMBER 2010.
Companies House
Company number 07242976 · Active
Contact on the register
07733 432970 · joanne@socialbusinesstrust.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 18th October 2026
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