Registered charity · London
Impetus - the Private Equity Foundation
- 13 trustees
- Income £24m (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Bill BenjaminChair · since 2024
- Alexander WalshTrustee · since 2023
- Andrew ThomsTrustee · since 2022
- Arnaud Emmanuel Frederic BosquetTrustee · since 2024
- Charles EdwardsTrustee · since 2019
- Christian Yannick LucasTrustee · since 2024
- Gabriele CipparroneTrustee · since 2026
- Lisa HarkerTrustee · since 2026
- Natasha Porter OBETrustee · since 2019
- Satwinder SinghTrustee · since 2022
- Shani ZindelTrustee · since 2017
- Sumit DheirTrustee · since 2026
- Tristram LeachTrustee · since 2026
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, Economic/community Development/employment
- Where
- Throughout England
- Website
- www.impetus.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Impetus - the Private Equity Foundation
- Registered
- 2013
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£24m£52m
- 2024£22m£42m
- 2023£27m£42m
Earlier years
- 2021£21m£28m
- 2020£13m£25m
Income trend, 2020 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 20%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ARE TO ADVANCE ALL PURPOSES RECOGNISED AS CHARITABLE UNDER THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES AND TO PROMOTE THE EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF CHARITIES AND THE PROMOTION OF THE EFFECTIVE USE OF RESOURCES FOR CHARITABLE PURPOSES.
Grants received
37 grants · £17,388,132 total360Giving 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
- Home Office · £12,596,792 (9 grants)
- Tuixen Foundation · £2,470,500 (22 grants)
- Henry Smith Foundation · £2,000,000
- Westminster Foundation · £150,840 (2 grants)
- The Aim Foundation · £120,000 (2 grants)
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.
13 trustees on the board
- Bill Benjamin Chair since 2024
- Alexander Walsh since 2023
- Andrew Thoms since 2022
- Arnaud Emmanuel Frederic Bosquet since 2024
- Charles Edwards since 2019
- Christian Yannick Lucas since 2024
- Gabriele Cipparrone since 2026
- Lisa Harker since 2026
- Natasha Porter OBE since 2019
- Satwinder Singh since 2022
- Shani Zindel since 2017
- Sumit Dheir since 2026
- Tristram Leach since 2026
Trustees past 6 years
- Charles Edwards since 2019
- Natasha Porter OBE since 2019
- Shani Zindel since 2017
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (12)
- Bill Benjamin Chair since 2024
- Alexander Walsh since 2023
- Andrew Thoms since 2022
- Arnaud Emmanuel Frederic Bosquet since 2024
- Charles Edwards since 2019
- Christian Yannick Lucas since 2024
- Gabriele Cipparrone since 2026
- Lisa Harker since 2026
- Satwinder Singh since 2022
- Shani Zindel since 2017
- Sumit Dheir since 2026
- Tristram Leach since 2026
Portfolio (1)
- Natasha Porter OBE since 2019
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.
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
30.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 2.9 in 2020
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1152262
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 25 MAR 2013
- Companies House
- Company number 08460519 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 07774 437 701 · info@impetus.org.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 4th October 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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