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Registered charity (CIO) · London

The Leverhulme Trust

The objects of the CIO for the public benefit are to promote any purpose being exclusively charitable according to the law of England and Wales through the provision of scholarships and other similar support for education and research.

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £124m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.leverhulme.ac.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2014

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£124m£139m
  • 2024£104m£118m
  • 2023£99m£127m
Earlier years
  • 2022£92m£104m
  • 2021£95m£141m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

The objects of the CIO for the public benefit are to promote any purpose being exclusively charitable according to the law of England and Wales through the provision of scholarships and other similar support for education and research.

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.

12 trustees on the board

3.7y median 2y
average tenure
11y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

6.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

Portfolio (12)

1
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 12General Charitable Purposes 12The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 11Environment/conservation/heritage 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.

Other services 1Tech and media 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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£103.7m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2023 and 2024
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

17 from 15 in 2020
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
1159154
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - FOUNDATION REGISTERED 11 NOV 2014AMENDED ON 26 JUN 2016 as amended on 26 Nov 2024
Contact on the register
02070429881 · edymond@leverhulme.ac.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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