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Registered charity · London

Wings for Life UK Spinal Cord Research Foundation

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £7.0m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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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
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.wingsforlife.com (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Wings for Life UK Spinal Cord Research Foundation
Registered
2010

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£7.0m£4.9m
  • 2024£4.8m£3.3m
  • 2023£4.6m£1.6m
Earlier years
  • 2022£2.8m£2.4m
  • 2021£1.7m£755k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

TO ADVANCE AND PROMOTE MEDICAL RESEARCH FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC AND IN PARTICULAR BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION INTO THE NATURE, CAUSES, DIAGNOSIS, PREVENTION, TREATMENT AND CURE OF ALL FORMS OF SPINAL CORD INJURIES, INCLUDING* THE DEVELOPMENT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC OF RESEARCH IN THE FIELD OF THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; AND* THE DEVELOPMENT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC OF RESEARCH INTO PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS FOR THE PREVENTION, TREATMENT AND CURE OF SPINAL CORD INJURIES; AND* TO PROVIDE INFORMATION AND RAISE PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING OF SUCH MATTERS FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC

Grants received

2 grants · £125,000 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.

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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.

9 trustees on the board

7.8y median 8.5y
average tenure
13y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

14.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

9
company-linked trustees

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

Disability 9Education/training 9The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 9

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 15Education 3Arts and leisure 2

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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£4.8m 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.

26.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 16.7 in 2020

6 from 6 in 2020
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
1138804
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 08 SEPTEMBER 2010AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 06 JUN 2016
Companies House
Company number 07371291 · Active
Contact on the register
02031172123 · office@wingsforlife.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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