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Addenbrooke's Charitable Trust

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £14m (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 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
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Where
Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk and more
Website
www.act4addenbrookes.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Addenbrooke's Charitable Trust
Registered
2016

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£14m£6.1m
  • 2024£11m£7.7m
  • 2023£11m£8.3m
Earlier years
  • 2022£8.2m£8.2m
  • 2021£6.7m£11m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

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

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT:(A) TO FURTHER ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE OR PURPOSES RELATING TO THE GENERAL OR ANY SPECIFIC PURPOSES OF THE FOUNDATION TRUST [BEING THE CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST OR ITS SUCCESSOR] OR THE PURPOSES OF THE HEALTH SERVICE [AS DEFINED IN SECTION 1 OF THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE ACT 2006];(B) TO ADVANCE AND PROMOTE ALL OR ANY ASPECTS OF THE HEALTH AND WELFARE OF THE PUBLIC; AND (C) TO ADVANCE AND PROMOTE KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS IN HEALTH CARE, INCLUDING BY ENGAGING IN AND SUPPORTING HEALTH-RELATED RESEARCH (AND THE DISSEMINATION OF ITS USEFUL RESULTS), EDUCATION AND TRAINING.

Grants received

13 grants · £2,877,275 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.

11 trustees on the board

4.7y median 4y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

13.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

Portfolio (3)

9
company-linked trustees

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

The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 11Disability 1Education/training 1General Charitable Purposes 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Health and social care 12Finance 3Professional services 3

Gaps to watch

  • 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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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£13.9m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025
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.

13.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 5.0 in 2021

47 from 40 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
1170103
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 08 NOV 2016AS AMENDED BY SCHEME DATED 30 MAR 2017 as amended on 04 Aug 2020
Companies House
Company number 10469089 · Active
Contact on the register
01223 217757 · hello@act4addenbrookes.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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