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The Octopus Foundation

  • 4 trustees
  • Income £329k (2025)

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
General Charitable Purposes
Where
City Of London
Website
octopusgroup.com/octopus-giving (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2015

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£329k£275k
  • 2024£288k£287k
  • 2023£421k£490k
Earlier years
  • 2022£265k£402k
  • 2021£351k£147k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

A) THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED, BY REASON OF YOUTH, AGE, ILL-HEALTH, DISABILITY, SOCIAL OR ECONOMIC DISADVANTAGE; ANDB) SUCH OTHER PURPOSES AS ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE UNDER THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY DECIDE.

Grants received

2 grants · £5,000 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

Most recent

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.

4 trustees on the board

9.5y median 9.5y
average tenure
11y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

13.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (4)

1
company-linked trustees

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

General Charitable Purposes 4

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 3Utilities 2Business services 1

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together
  • 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.

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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.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£329k latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1161273
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - Foundation Registered 14 Apr 2015 as amended on 27 Jul 2018
Contact on the register
02077106489 · GIVING@OCTOPUSGROUP.COM
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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