Registered charity · London
Black Heart Foundation (UK) Limited
- 7 trustees
- Income £1.3m (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources
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, Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Arts/culture/heritage/science and 2 more
- Where
- Throughout England And Wales
- Website
- www.blackheartfoundation.org (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Black Heart Foundation (UK) Limited
- Registered
- 2010
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£1.3m£937k
- 2024£1.3m£1.0m
- 2023£1.8m£2.8m
Earlier years
- 2022£1.7m£2.0m
- 2021£2.9m£2.6m
Charitable objects
6.1 THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, THE ADVANCEMENT OFEDUCATION, THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND THE PRESERVATION OF HEALTH, AND SUCHOTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES WHICH ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE AS THE TRUSTEESMAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE (THE "OBJECTS").6.2 THIS PROVISION MAY BE AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION BUT ONLY WITH THEPRIOR WRITTEN CONSENT OF THE COMMISSION.
Board analysis for researchers
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.
7 trustees on the board
- Richard Wayne Lewis Chair
- Ben Sharpe since 2019
- Claire Heath
- Matt Dawson since 2019
- Michael Vaughan since 2019
- Olivia Griffiths since 2019
- Ross Howlett since 2019
Trustees past 6 years
- Ben Sharpe since 2019
- Matt Dawson since 2019
- Michael Vaughan since 2019
- Olivia Griffiths since 2019
- Ross Howlett since 2019
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (6)
- Ben Sharpe since 2019
- Claire Heath
- Matt Dawson since 2019
- Michael Vaughan since 2019
- Olivia Griffiths since 2019
- Ross Howlett since 2019
Portfolio (1)
- Richard Wayne Lewis Chair
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
17.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 3.5 in 2021
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1136813
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 30 APRIL 2010
- Companies House
- Company number 07241076 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 02034638900 · info@blackheartfoundation.org
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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