Registered charity · London
The Chronic Disease Research Foundation
- 5 trustees
- Income £214k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources
Who leads it
- Mark Daniel Benjamin SimonChair · since 2019
- Dr Elena Georgieva BochukovaTrustee · since 2019
- Jonathan RossTrustee · since 2022
- Michael BenaimTrustee · since 2019
- Nicholas PikeTrustee · since 2019
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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People on this board also serve on 4 other charities:
- The Khair AL Hasan Foundation · 1 shared trustee
- Ctvc Limited · 1 shared trustee
- Forest School Camps · 1 shared trustee
- The OLD Stables Charitable Trust · 1 shared trustee
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About
- What it does
- Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
- Where
- Throughout London
- Website
- www.cdrf.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- The Chronic Disease Research Foundation
- Registered
- 2019
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£214k£947k
- 2024£4.4m£1.4m
- 2023£791k£1.4m
Earlier years
- 2022£481k£1.8m
- 2021£3.2m£690k
Charitable objects
THE PROMOTION OF RESEARCH INTO THE CAUSES OF, AND CURE FOR, CHRONIC DISEASES INCLUDING (BUT WITHOUT LIMITING THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING) COMMON DISEASES THAT HAVE A STRONG GENETIC INFLUENCE; ANDSUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE BOARD IN ITS ABSOLUTE DISCRETION FROM TIME TO TIME THINKS FIT.
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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.
5 trustees on the board
- Mark Daniel Benjamin Simon Chair since 2019
- Dr Elena Georgieva Bochukova since 2019
- Jonathan Ross since 2022
- Michael Benaim since 2019
- Nicholas Pike since 2019
Trustees past 6 years
- Mark Daniel Benjamin Simon Chair since 2019
- Dr Elena Georgieva Bochukova since 2019
- Michael Benaim since 2019
- Nicholas Pike since 2019
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (4)
- Dr Elena Georgieva Bochukova since 2019
- Jonathan Ross since 2022
- Michael Benaim since 2019
- Nicholas Pike since 2019
Portfolio (1)
- Mark Daniel Benjamin Simon Chair since 2019
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.
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Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1186102
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 16 OCT 2019
- Companies House
- Company number 12266787 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 07795177093 · info@cdrf.org.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 13th 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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