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Registered charity · London

The Wolfson Foundation

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £27m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 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
Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability, Religious Activities and 2 more
Where
Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.wolfson.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Wolfson Foundation
Registered
2014

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£27m£41m
  • 2024£26m£47m
  • 2023£23m£42m
Earlier years
  • 2022£20m£41m
  • 2021£19m£39m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

THE CHARITY IS ESTABLISHED FOR EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, WORLDWIDE, INCLUDING IN PARTICULAR (BUT NOT LIMITED TO):(A) THE ADVANCEMENT, PROMOTION AND SUPPORT OF SCIENCE AND MEDICINE, EDUCATION, THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES, HEALTH AND SUCH RELIGIONS AS ARE RECOGNISED AS CHARITABLE UNDER THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES; PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY:(I) THE PROMOTION OF EXCELLENCE IN ALL RELEVANT DISCIPLINES;(II) UNDERTAKING AND/OR FACILITATING RELEVANT RESEARCH AND DISSEMINATING THE USEFUL RESULTS OF THAT RESEARCH FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT; (III) THE PROVISION OF PHYSICAL FACILITIES FOR LEARNING, STUDY AND RESEARCH IN RELATION TO RELEVANT DISCIPLINES.(B) SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AS THE TRUSTEE DIRECTORS MAY FROM TIME TO TIME 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.

9.6y median 12y
average tenure
16y
longest tenure
18.7y
average years in governance
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 12The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 11Disability 9Arts/culture/heritage/science 1Environment/conservation/heritage 1General Charitable Purposes 1Other Charitable Purposes 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.

Finance 7Manufacturing 4Business services 3

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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£26.9m 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.

120.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months

12 from 9 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
1156077
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 06/03/2014
Companies House
Company number 08927040 · Active
Contact on the register
02073235730 · grants@wolfson.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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