Registered charity (CIO) · Octopus Giving
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 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
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £4,000
- Yorkshire Building Society Charitable Foundation · £1,000
Most recent
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
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
- Stuart Andrew Neil Sheppard Chair since 2017
- Christopher Thomas Llewellyn since 2016
- Emily Quilter since 2018
- Simon Andrew Rogerson since 2015
Trustees past 6 years
- Stuart Andrew Neil Sheppard Chair since 2017
- Christopher Thomas Llewellyn since 2016
- Emily Quilter since 2018
- Simon Andrew Rogerson since 2015
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (4)
- Stuart Andrew Neil Sheppard Chair since 2017
- Christopher Thomas Llewellyn since 2016
- Emily Quilter since 2018
- Simon Andrew Rogerson since 2015
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
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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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
- 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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