Registered charity (CIO) · London
Mermaids
- 6 trustees
- Income £1.3m (2025)
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
- Where
- Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
- Website
- www.mermaidsuk.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 2015
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£1.3m£1.6m
- 2024£1.2m£1.9m
- 2023£2.3m£2.4m
Earlier years
- 2022£1.9m£1.8m
- 2021£1.8m£1.2m
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 1%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
TO RELIEVE THE MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL STRESS OF ALL PERSONS AGED 19 YEARS AND UNDER WHO ARE IN ANY MANNER AFFECTED BY GENDER IDENTITY ISSUES, AND THEIR FAMILIES, AND TO ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION IN THE SAME.
Grants received
20 grants · £1,495,310 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
- The National Lottery Community Fund · £547,500 (5 grants)
- Paul Hamlyn Foundation · £433,000 (4 grants)
- Henry Smith Foundation · £368,810 (4 grants)
- The Tudor Trust · £94,000
- LGBT Consortium · £17,000 (2 grants)
Most recent
- The National Lottery Community Fund
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.
6 trustees on the board
- Hardeep Aiden Chair since 2022
- Corey Lynn Stoughton since 2022
- Dr Tony Clive Hockley since 2023
- Kathryn Downs since 2025
- Matthew Maddocks since 2022
- Ruth Chapple since 2023
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (6)
- Hardeep Aiden Chair since 2022
- Corey Lynn Stoughton since 2022
- Dr Tony Clive Hockley since 2023
- Kathryn Downs since 2025
- Matthew Maddocks since 2022
- Ruth Chapple since 2023
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Gaps to watch
- No commercial or business experience on the board
- Narrow spread of causes across the board
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
0.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 9.7 in 2021
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1160575
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CIO - FOUNDATION REGISTERED 20 FEB 2015AMENDED ON 21 SEP 2016 as amended on 23 Feb 2024
- Contact on the register
- 08088010400 · info@mermaidsuk.org.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 27th September 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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