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Registered charity · London

Lloyd's Register Foundation

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £692m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

Also 1 organisation acting as trustee: Matthias Altendorf.

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
Where
Throughout England, Albania, Algeria, Andorra and more
Website
www.lr.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Lloyd's Register Foundation
Registered
2012

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£692m£662m
  • 2024£572m£590m
  • 2023£560m£550m
Earlier years
  • 2022£997m£600m
  • 2021£384m£360m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

(A) TO SECURE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY HIGH TECHNICAL STANDARDS OF DESIGN, MANUFACTURE, CONSTRUCTION, MAINTENANCE, OPERATION AND PERFORMANCE FOR THE PURPOSE OF ENHANCING THE SAFETY OF LIFE AND PROPERTY AT SEA AND ON LAND AND IN THE AIR;(B) THE ADVANCEMENT OF PUBLIC EDUCATION INCLUDING WITHIN THE TRANSPORTATION INDUSTRIES AND ANY OTHER ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGICAL DISCIPLINES.

Grants given

520 grants · £233,480,510 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 recipients

  • Royal Academy of Engineering · £15,963,393 (7 grants)
  • The Welding Institute (TWI) · £14,166,120
  • University of York · £13,991,201 (2 grants)
  • Lloyd's Register · £11,524,000 (3 grants)
  • National University of Singapore · £11,109,702 (3 grants)

Most recent

  • Memorandum of Understanding on Port State Control for West and Central African Region (Abuja MoU) £746,8482026-04-15
  • Engineers for Change (Sierra Leone) £10,0002026-04-08
  • Waves Group Ltd £975,0002026-04-02
  • Voyage Solutions £9682026-04-02
  • Royal College of Art £628,3482026-03-30
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.

7 trustees on the board

5.1y median 3y
average tenure
14y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

14.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

7
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 7The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 7

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Finance 14Professional services 4Business services 2

Gaps to watch

  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

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£691.7m 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.

11.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 15.5 in 2021

4163 from 5974 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
1145988
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 11/01/2012AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 27/06/2013AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 07 APR 2017 as amended on 29 Jun 2021 as amended on 28 Sep 2023
Companies House
Company number 07905861 · Active
Contact on the register
02074232783 · MICHELLE.DAVIES@LR.ORG
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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