Registered charity (CIO) · London
Change Please Foundation
- 7 trustees
- Income £1.6m (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
- General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability and 2 more
- Where
- Throughout England, Scotland
- Website
- wwww.changeplease.org (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 2018
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£1.6m£2.1m
- 2024£2.8m£1.6m
- 2023£994k£971k
Earlier years
- 2022£794k£478k
- 2021£368k£231k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2022: Government grants 6%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
TO ADVANCE SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES (ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES) AS THE TRUSTEES SEE FIT FROM TIME TO TIME, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY, BY PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF EDUCATION, TRAINING, HEALTHCARE PROJECTS AND ALL THE NECESSARY SUPPORT DESIGNED TO ENABLE INDIVIDUALS TO GENERATE A SUSTAINABLE INCOME AND BE SELF-SUFFICIENT.
Grants received
9 grants · £215,229 total360Giving 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
- Camden Giving · £100,000
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £59,429 (3 grants)
- Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and Wales · £52,250 (2 grants)
- London Catalyst · £2,500
- Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust · £1,000
Most recent
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
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.
7 trustees on the board
- Cemal Ezel Chair since 2018
- Alison Egan since 2018
- Glenn Earlam since 2023
- Justin Irwin since 2019
- Nimesh Shah since 2024
- Robert Gillion since 2018
- Simon Dow since 2026
Trustees past 6 years
- Cemal Ezel Chair since 2018
- Alison Egan since 2018
- Justin Irwin since 2019
- Robert Gillion since 2018
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (7)
- Cemal Ezel Chair since 2018
- Alison Egan since 2018
- Glenn Earlam since 2023
- Justin Irwin since 2019
- Nimesh Shah since 2024
- Robert Gillion since 2018
- Simon Dow since 2026
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
6.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 13.8 in 2021
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1177958
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 16 Apr 2018 as amended on 10 Mar 2025
- Contact on the register
- 0203 744 7434 · hello@c-p-foundation.org
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 4th October 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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