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Registered charity · London

The Seneca Trust

  • 5 trustees
  • Income £4.5m (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, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty and 1 more
Where
Throughout England
Registered
2010

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£4.5m£1.6m
  • 2024£3.4m£2.7m
  • 2023£3.2m£2.8m
Earlier years
  • 2022£2.8m£945k
  • 2021£1.0m£675k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

TO RELIEVE POVERTY AND NEED, PROMOTE HEALTH AND ADVANCE EDUCATION WITH A PARTICULAR FOCUS ON PEOPLE WHO HAVE A DISABILITY OR SUFFER FROM SICKNESS OR LACK OF EDUCATION. TO CARRY ON FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY THE PURSUIT OF PROVIDING HOUSING (BY CONSTRUCTION OR CONVERSION) AND ANY ASSOCIATED AMENITIES FOR DISABLED PERSONS IN NECESSITOUS CIRCUMSTANCES.THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OF DISPLACED PEOPLE AND REFUGEES BY PROVIDING ADVICE ON NUTRITION, SANITATION, HEALTH AND PSYCHO-SOCIAL SUPPORT AND ANY OTHER NECESSARY MEASURESIN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, THE SENECA TRUST WILL ACCOMPLISH THESE OBJECTIVES BY PROVIDING GRANTS TO CHARITIES OR OTHER ORGANISATIONS OR INDIVIDUALS IN THE UK OR INTERNATIONALLY, IDENTIFIED BY THE TRUSTEES AT THEIR DISCRETION

Grants received

2 grants · £75,000 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

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.

5 trustees on the board

10.6y median 8y
average tenure
16y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

17.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (4)

Portfolio (1)

3
company-linked trustees

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

Education/training 5Disability 4The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 4Environment/conservation/heritage 1General Charitable Purposes 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.

Other services 3Finance 1Professional services 1

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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£3.4m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2023 and 2024
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.

25.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 49.3 in 2020

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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
1137147
Status
Registered
Governing document
TRUST DEED DATED 02/07/2010AS AMENDED ON 06/06/2011AS AMENDED ON 17/09/2013AS AMENDED BY RESOLUTION DATED 11 AUG 2017
Contact on the register
02075898899
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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