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Registered charity · Berkshire

The Georg and Emily VON Opel Foundation

  • 3 trustees
  • Income £1.9m (2024)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources

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, Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability and 6 more
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Switzerland, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.vonopel-foundation.ch (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2017

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£1.9m£1.9m
  • 2023£1.6m£2.1m
  • 2022£2.4m£1.8m
Earlier years
  • 2021£1.8m£2.1m
  • 2020£1.2m£796k
Charitable objects

THE TRUSTEES SHALL HOLD THE TRUST FUND AND ITS INCOME UPON TRUST TO APPLY THEM FOR ALL PURPOSES WHICH ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT UNDER THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES AND IN PARTICULAR WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING: - THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, SUFFERING, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS; - THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION; - THE ADVANCEMENT OF HEALTH; - THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC FAITH

Board analysis for researchers

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.

3 trustees on the board

6.3y median 9y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (3)

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 3General Charitable Purposes 3The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 3

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

Agriculture 1Arts and leisure 1Education 1

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together
  • Small board - little cover if a trustee leaves

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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£1.9m 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.

2.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 9.9 in 2020

0
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
1172977
Status
Registered
Governing document
TRUST DEED DATED 10 JAN 2017AS AMENDED BY DEED DATED 09 MAY 2017
Contact on the register
+41526470212
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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