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Registered charity (CIO) · London

The Mainstay Foundation

  • 4 trustees
  • Income £5.7m (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, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Economic/community Development/employment and 2 more
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Denmark, India, Iraq and more
Website
www.mainstay.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2016

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£5.7m£5.1m
  • 2024£5.4m£5.6m
  • 2023£4.2m£3.4m
Earlier years
  • 2022£2.6m£2.4m
  • 2021£2.8m£3.2m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2021: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE:3.1 THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE RELIGION OF ISLAM IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PRINCIPLES AND TENETS OF THE SHIA ITHNA ASHARI MUSLIM FAITH;3.2 THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AMONG ADHERENTS OF THE SHIA ITHNA ASHARI MUSLIM FAITH BY PROVIDING SUPPORT TO INSTITUTIONS AND SCHOLARSHIPS TO INDIVIDUALS; AND3.3 THE ADVANCEMENT OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, PRIMARILY FOR THE BENEFIT OF ADHERENTS OF THE SHIA ITHNA ASHARI MUSLIM FAITH WORLDWIDE, BY MEANS INCLUDING:3.3.1 THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE IN SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES AND AMONG VULNERABLE GROUPS;3.3.2 THE PROMOTION OF NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT RESOLUTION AND RECONCILIATION; AND3.3.3 THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL NEED AND SUFFERING AMONG VICTIMS OF NATURAL OR OTHER KINDS OF DISASTER.

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

8.8y median 10y
average tenure
10y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

11.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (3)

Portfolio (1)

1
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 4The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 4The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 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.

Retail and trade 2Professional services 1Tech and media 1

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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£5.7m 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.

4.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 1.2 in 2021

13 from 3 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
1166017
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - Foundation Registered 11 Mar 2016
Contact on the register
07507899044
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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