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The Hygiene Bank

The Hygiene Bank is a registered charity (number 1181267) based in London, governed by 12 trustees and chaired by Dr James Daniel Dray since 2023. Latest income £7.4m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 25th October 2026.

The objects of the CIO are: The relief of people living in the United Kingdom and such parts of the world as the trustees shall from time to time determine who are in conditions of financial need, hardship or distress, in particular but not...

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £7.4m (2025)
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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, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Economic/community Development/employment
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Northern Ireland, Scotland
Website
www.thehygienebank.com (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2018

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£7.4m£7.2m
  • 2024£6.9m£6.8m
  • 2023£6.8m£6.8m
Earlier years
  • 2022£7.2m£7.1m
  • 2020£4.2m£4.0m

Income trend, 2020 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 2%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

The objects of the CIO are: The relief of people living in the United Kingdom and such parts of the world as the trustees shall from time to time determine who are in conditions of financial need, hardship or distress, in particular but not exclusively by: (1) Providing or assisting other charities and organisations by the provision of toiletries and other essential hygiene products; (2) Making grants or donations of toiletry gifts, make-up and grooming products that will improve the conditions of life of such people; (3) Assisting in the establishment of projects throughout the world that will prevent or relieve financial need, hardship or distress by the provision of toiletries and other essential hygiene products; (4) Improving the lives and prospects of such people by challenging injustice through research, policy, collaboration and advocacy.

Grants received

23 grants · £365,932 total

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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.

12 trustees on the board

3.5y median 3.5y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

9.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

Portfolio (3)

5
company-linked trustees

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

General Charitable Purposes 12Economic/community Development/employment 11The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 10Education/training 2Arts/culture/heritage/science 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.

Arts and leisure 7Education 6Finance 5

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.
2020
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£7.4m 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.

0.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months

14
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
1181267
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 19 Dec 2018 as amended on 14 Aug 2020
Contact on the register
07593054190 · enquiries@thehygienebank.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 25th October 2026
Labels
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