Registered charity (CIO) · Wigan

Nialls Foundation

3 trustees
Income £912k (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Where: Throughout England, Australia, Austria, Canada and more
Website: niallsfoundation.org (opens in a new tab)
Registered: 2017

Income and spending

YearIncomeSpending
2025£912k£309k
2024£681k£353k
2023£356k£173k

Earlier years

2022£521k£202k
2021£268k£13k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN GENERAL IN THE TREATMENT AND CURE OF SPINAL INJURIES BY PROVIDING GRANTS TO PROMOTE RESEARCH FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN ALL ASPECTS OF THAT SUBJECT AND TO PUBLISH THE USEFUL RESULTS

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.

3 trustees on the board

Niall EL-Assaad Chair since 2017
Ryan El-Assaad since 2023
Sophie EL-Assaad since 2017

7y median 9y

average tenure

longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

Niall EL-Assaad Chair since 2017
Sophie EL-Assaad since 2017

7.1y

average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (2)

Ryan El-Assaad since 2023
Sophie EL-Assaad since 2017

Portfolio (1)

Niall EL-Assaad Chair since 2017

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 3Disability 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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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£912k 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.

69.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 15.9 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: 1174677
Status: Registered
Governing document: CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 15 Sep 2017
Contact on the register: 07720884650 · contact@niallsfoundation.org
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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