Registered charity · London
Challenge Partners
- 11 trustees
- Income £3.3m (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources
Who leads it
- Alison Linda BeaneTrustee · since 2020
- Candice Elizabeth LottTrustee · since 2022
- Dr Kate ChhatwalTrustee · since 2018
- Folake Jumoke Anike AgbaniyakaTrustee · since 2025
- Gary John LewisTrustee · since 2022
- Heather DugganTrustee · since 2025
- Janine HarionTrustee · since 2021
- Lucinda Eleanor IngramTrustee · since 2022
- Pavandeep BansalTrustee · since 2022
- Rachel Louise HargreavesTrustee · since 2025
- Susanna Jane EasthamTrustee · since 2020
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- Education/training
- Where
- Throughout England
- Website
- www.challengepartners.org (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Challenge Partners
- Registered
- 2012
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£3.3m£3.2m
- 2024£3.3m£3.2m
- 2023£3.0m£3.0m
Earlier years
- 2022£2.6m£2.5m
- 2021£2.1m£2.2m
Charitable objects
THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY) BY PROMOTING AND SUPPORTING THE IMPROVEMENT OF SCHOOLS REGIONALLY, NATIONALLY OR INTERNATIONALLY.
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.
11 trustees on the board
- Alison Linda Beane since 2020
- Candice Elizabeth Lott since 2022
- Dr Kate Chhatwal since 2018
- Folake Jumoke Anike Agbaniyaka since 2025
- Gary John Lewis since 2022
- Heather Duggan since 2025
- Janine Harion since 2021
- Lucinda Eleanor Ingram since 2022
- Pavandeep Bansal since 2022
- Rachel Louise Hargreaves since 2025
- Susanna Jane Eastham since 2020
Trustees past 6 years
- Alison Linda Beane since 2020
- Dr Kate Chhatwal since 2018
- Susanna Jane Eastham since 2020
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (11)
- Alison Linda Beane since 2020
- Candice Elizabeth Lott since 2022
- Dr Kate Chhatwal since 2018
- Folake Jumoke Anike Agbaniyaka since 2025
- Gary John Lewis since 2022
- Heather Duggan since 2025
- Janine Harion since 2021
- Lucinda Eleanor Ingram since 2022
- Pavandeep Bansal since 2022
- Rachel Louise Hargreaves since 2025
- Susanna Jane Eastham since 2020
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
- 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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
2.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 1.4 in 2021
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1149266
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 27 APR 2012 as amended on 18 Oct 2019
- Companies House
- Company number 08048330 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 020 7803 4970 · finance@challengepartners.org
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 13th 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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