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Registered charity · London

The BIG Give Trust

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £13m (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
General Charitable Purposes
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.biggive.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The BIG Give Trust LTD
Registered
2010

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£13m£13m
  • 2024£10m£9.9m
  • 2023£11m£11m
Earlier years
  • 2022£6.8m£5.5m
  • 2021£4.0m£3.9m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2024: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

4 THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS (OBJECTS) ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO THE FOLLOWING:4.1 FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE ADVANCEMENT OF RELIGION AND SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES WHICH ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE (PRIMARILY, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY THE MAKING OF GRANTS TO, OR OTHERWISE SUPPORTING, EXISTING CHARITIES).

Grants received

25 grants · £8,718,656 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

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.

8 trustees on the board

4.6y median 5y
average tenure
10y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

12.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (1)

7
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 8Education/training 1The 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.

Business services 14Professional services 10Education 5

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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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£13.3m 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.

0.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months

10 from 5 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
1136547
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 3 JUNE 2010AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 03/08/2015AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 15 JUN 2016
Companies House
Company number 07273065 · Active
Contact on the register
02045708283 · hello@biggive.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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