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Registered charity · London

Chineke Foundation

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £1.5m (2025)
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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, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
chineke.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Chineke Foundation
Registered
2016

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.5m£2.2m
  • 2024£1.9m£1.8m
  • 2023£2.2m£2.6m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.6m£1.6m
  • 2021£878k£723k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

1. TO ADVANCE THE ART OF CLASSICAL MUSIC FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, BYA) SUPPORTING, DEVELOPING AND TRAINING ETHNIC MINORITY CLASSICAL MUSICIANS, AGED 7 TO 26, LIVING IN THE UK AND EUROPE, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, THROUGH ANNUAL COMPETITIONS, AND MENTORING PROGRAMMES;B) THE STAGING OF HIGH QUALITY CLASSIC MUSICAL PERFORMANCES;2. THE ADVANCEMENT IN LIFE OF ETHNIC MINORITY CLASSICAL MUSICIANS OF LIMITED MEANS LIVING IN THE UK AND EUROPE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, BY SUPPORTING AND PROVIDING CAREER OPPORTUNITIES, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, THROUGH THE ESTABLISHMENT OF JUNIOR AND PROFESSIONAL ORCHESTRAS; AND 3. TO PROMOTE EDUCATION IN CLASSICAL MUSIC, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, IN THE UK AND EUROPE BY PROVIDING, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMES AND SCHOLARSHIPS FOR ETHNIC MINORITY CLASSICAL MUSICIANS, AGED 7 TO 26 AND ENCOURAGING PROGRAMMES OF CLASSICAL MUSIC WITHIN SCHOOLS.

Grants received

14 grants · £1,615,400 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.

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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

3.8y median 2y
average tenure
11y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

10.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

10
company-linked trustees

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

Arts/culture/heritage/science 10Education/training 10Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity 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.

Arts and leisure 17Education 3Other services 2

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£1.5m latest income
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.

0.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 4.5 in 2021

8 from 5 in 2021
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
1165933
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 21 APR 2015AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 16/02/2016AS REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 04/03/2016
Companies House
Company number 09553052 · Active
Contact on the register
07958571702 · theo@chineke.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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