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Registered charity · London

The Allen Overy Shearman Sterling Foundation

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £2.2m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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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 Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Overseas Aid/famine Relief and 3 more
Where
Ethiopia, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic and more
Linked company
The Allen Overy Shearman Sterling Foundation
Registered
2013

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£2.2m£2.1m
  • 2024£2.0m£1.2m
  • 2023£2.3m£1.9m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.5m£1.8m
  • 2021£1.6m£1.5m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

4.1 THE CHARITY IS ESTABLISHED FOR EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, IN ENGLAND AND WALES AND WORLDWIDE, INCLUDING IN PARTICULAR (BUT NOT LIMITED TO):4.1.1 THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED WHETHER BECAUSE OF POVERTY, YOUTH, ILL HEALTH, DISABILITY OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE; 4.1.2 THE RELIEF OF SUFFERING AMONGST THOSE LEAST ABLE TO WITHSTAND THE EFFECTS OF A MAJOR NATIONAL OR INTERNATIONAL DISASTER, WHICH SHALL INCLUDE SUFFERING CAUSED AS A RESULT OF CONFLICT;4.1.3 THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION; 4.1.4 THE PROMOTION OF THE SOUND DEVELOPMENT AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE LAW; AND4.1.5 SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES WHICH ARE BENEFICIAL TO THE PUBLIC AND WHICH ARE CONSISTENT WITH THE OBJECTS STATED ABOVE AS THE TRUSTEE DIRECTORS SHALL IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINE.

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.

11 trustees on the board

3.4y median 2y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

11y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (1)

11
company-linked trustees

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

The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 11Education/training 10General Charitable Purposes 10Accommodation/housing 1Economic/community Development/employment 1

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 11Arts and leisure 1Health and social care 1

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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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£2.2m latest income · income exceeded spending 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.

11.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 6.6 in 2021

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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
1153738
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 02 AUG 2013AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 27 JUL 2015AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 05 FEB 2020AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 15 JUL 2020AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 22 APR 2021AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 19 JUN 2023AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 25 APR 2024
Companies House
Company number 08636434 · Active
Contact on the register
02030880000 · allenoveryfoundation@allenovery.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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