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Wikimedia UK

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £1.3m (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, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.wikimedia.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Wikimedia UK
Registered
2011

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.3m£1.0m
  • 2024£1.1m£1.1m
  • 2023£977k£976k
Earlier years
  • 2022£860k£832k
  • 2021£867k£694k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, TO PROMOTE AND SUPPORT THE WIDEST POSSIBLE PUBLIC ACCESS TO, USE OF AND CONTRIBUTION TO OPEN CONTENT OF AN ENCYCLOPAEDIC OR EDUCATIONAL NATURE OR OF SIMILAR UTILITY TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC, IN PARTICULAR THE OPEN CONTENT SUPPORTED AND PROVIDED BY WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION, INC., BASED IN SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, USA.“CONTENT” MEANS TEXTUAL OR NUMERICAL INFORMATION, STILL OR MOVING IMAGES, SOUND OR MUSIC OR OTHER DATA DISSEMINATED ON PRINTED, ELECTRONIC AND OTHER APPROPRIATE MEDIA AND SERVICES. CONTENT IS SUBJECT TO EDITORIAL POLICIES AND SAFEGUARDS DESIGNED TO ENSURE ITS OVERALL ACCURACY AND QUALITY.CONTENT IS "OPEN" WHEN IT IS AVAILABLE FOR NO CHARGE AND WITHOUT DISCRIMINATION TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC, WITH LEGAL RIGHTS TO VIEW, COPY, SHARE, ADAPT, IMPROVE AND OTHERWISE USE AND REUSE THAT CONTENT AND WHEN TECHNICAL MEASURES ARE IN PLACE TO SUPPORT SUCH USAGE.

Grants received

7 grants · £307,265 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

  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £166,740 (2 grants)
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £80,953 (2 grants)
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport · £43,947
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £9,000
  • Culham St Gabriel's Trust · £6,625

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £56,1982025-09-10
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £24,7552022-12-12
  • Culham St Gabriel's Trust £6,6252022-11-02
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £9,0002021-08-26
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport £43,9472021-03-16
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

2.6y median 2.5y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
5.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

Portfolio (1)

10
company-linked trustees

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

Arts/culture/heritage/science 10Education/training 10Environment/conservation/heritage 10

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 40Business services 12Other services 11

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£1.3m 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.

5.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months

14 from 10 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
1144513
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 05/11/2008NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 16/10/2011AS REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 26/10/2011AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 14/08/2012AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 13/04/2013 as amended on 09 Aug 2014 as amended on 09 Jul 2016 as amended on 13 Jul 2019
Companies House
Company number 06741827 · Active
Contact on the register
02033720760 · info@wikimedia.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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