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Registered charity · London

Start Network

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £24m (2024)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th 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, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Overseas Aid/famine Relief
Where
Islington
Website
www.startnetwork.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Start Network
Registered
2014

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£24m£24m
  • 2023£22m£16m
  • 2022£6.4m£7.9m
Earlier years
  • 2021£5.6m£3.2m
  • 2020£3.5m£2.3m

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Income source mix, 2024: Government grants 76%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT: THE RELIEF AND ASSISTANCE OF PEOPLE IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD WHO ARE THE VICTIMS OF WAR, CONFLICT, NATURAL DISASTER, TROUBLE, OR CATASTROPHE, PARTICULARLY, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY PROVIDING GRANTS AND OTHER FORMS OF SUPPORT TO CHARITIES AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS WORKING TO PROVIDE HUMANITARIAN RELIEF AND ASSISTANCE TO SUCH PERSONS; THE PROMOTION OF EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF CHARITIES AND THE EFFECTIVE USE OF CHARITABLE RESOURCES IN THE PROVISION OF HUMANITARIAN RELIEF AND ASSISTANCE; AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND THE PROMOTION OF RESEARCH IN RELATION TO THE SUBJECT OF HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE AND ANY RELATED SUBJECTS, PROVIDED THAT THE USEFUL RESULTS OF ANY SUCH RESEARCH ARE PUBLISHED.

Grants received

2 grants · £1,000,000 total

360Giving 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

  • Postcode International Trust · £1,000,000 (2 grants)

Most recent

  • Postcode International Trust £500,0002025-02-10
  • Postcode International Trust £500,0002023-12-01
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.

10 trustees on the board

1.9y median 1y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
4.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

9
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 10The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 10The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 10

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 9Health and social care 1Manufacturing 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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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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£23.8m latest income · income exceeded spending 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.

1.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 8.4 in 2020

50 from 34 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
1159483
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 29/10/2014AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 09/12/2015 as amended on 30 Nov 2018
Companies House
Company number 09286835 · Active
Contact on the register
02037630947 · info@startnetwork.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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