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Effective Ventures Foundation

Effective Ventures Foundation is a registered charity (number 1149828) based in Oxford, governed by 3 trustees. Latest income £12m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 4th October 2026.

Also known as CEA (Charity Commission)

  • 3 trustees
  • Income £12m (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 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
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty and 4 more
Where
Oxfordshire
Website
ev.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Effective Ventures Foundation (UK)
Registered
2012

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£12m£38m
  • 2024£32m£35m
  • 2023£62m£58m
Earlier years
  • 2022£141m£79m
  • 2021£19m£14m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY SHALL BE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES WHICH ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES ACCORDING TO THE LAW IN ENGLAND AND WALES, AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE; THEY SHALL IN PARTICULAR INCLUDE, WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING:1) THE PROMOTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF CHARITIES AND THE APPLICATION OF CHARITABLE RESOURCES BY INFORMING, ADVISING AND EDUCATING THOSE WHO WORK FOR OR WITH CHARITIES AND VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS, OR WHO ARE OTHERWISE CONCERNED WITH CHARITIES AND VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS, WITH A VIEW TO IMPROVING FUNDRAISING AND PLANNED GIVING TO CHARITIES AND FOR CHARITABLE PURPOSES;2) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION BY PROVIDING SOURCES OF INFORMATION ABOUT THE ETHICS OF CAREER CHOICES;3) THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY AND THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE IN SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES THROUGH UNDERTAKING AND SUPPORTING RESEARCH INTO FACTORS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO POVERTY AND THE MOST APPROPRIATE WAYS TO MITIGATE THESE.

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.

3 trustees on the board

2.3y median 2y
average tenure
3y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
2.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (3)

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 3General Charitable Purposes 3The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 3

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

Education 3

Gaps to watch

  • Small board - little cover if a trustee leaves

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£12.1m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025
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.

0.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 8.5 in 2021

68 from 29 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
1149828
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 23/02/2012AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 09/10/2012 as amended on 25 Aug 2022 as amended on 10 Feb 2023
Companies House
Company number 07962181 · Active
Contact on the register
01865241188 · info@ev.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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