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Registered charity (CIO) · Plymouth

Partnership for Observation of the Global Ocean

Partnership for Observation of the Global Ocean is a registered charity (number 1171692) based in Plymouth, governed by 7 trustees and chaired by Capt. Francisco Armando Arias-Isaza since 2021. Latest income £780k (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 4th October 2026.

Also known as Pogo (Charity Commission)

  • 7 trustees
  • Income £780k (2025)
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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, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Australia, Belgium, Brazil and more
Website
pogo-ocean.org (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2017

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£780k£927k
  • 2024£675k£779k
  • 2023£834k£866k
Earlier years
  • 2022£835k£922k
  • 2021£983k£799k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

TO ADVANCE THE SCIENCE OF GLOBAL OCEAN OBSERVATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN PARTICULAR (BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY) BY - ADVANCING EDUCATION IN GLOBAL OCEAN OBSERVATION BY IDENTIFYING AREAS OF FURTHER STUDY FOR DEVELOPING THE SCIENCE OF GLOBAL OCEAN OBSERVATION- THE PROMOTION OF RESEARCH IN GLOBAL OCEAN OBSERVATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AND THE PUBLICATION AND DISSEMINATION OF THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH- THE PROVISION OF SCHOLARSHIPS AND RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS- THE PROMOTION OF INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE SCIENCE OF GLOBAL OCEAN OBSERVATION

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.

1.9y median 2y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
2.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

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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 7Education/training 7Environment/conservation/heritage 7

Gaps to watch

  • No commercial or business experience on the board
  • Mostly recent joiners - limited long-term continuity

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£780k latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

3.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 5.5 in 2021

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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
1171692
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - ASSOCIATION REGISTERED 20 FEB 2017 AS AMENDED ON 27 JUL 2018AMENDED ON 23 JUL 2018 AS AMENDED ON 31 JAN 2020AMENDED ON 23 JUN 2021 as amended on 22 Feb 2026
Contact on the register
01752633424 · pogoadmin@pml.ac.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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