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Registered charity · Oxford

Global Change Data LAB

Global Change Data LAB is a registered charity (number 1186433) based in Oxford, governed by 5 trustees and chaired by Hetan Shah since 2022. Latest income £4.6m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 25th October 2026.

Also known as Gcdl (Charity Commission)

  • 5 trustees
  • Income £4.6m (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
Education/training
Where
Throughout England
Website
global-change-data-lab.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Global Change Data LAB
Registered
2019

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£4.6m£3.2m
  • 2024£4.2m£2.9m
  • 2023£2.5m£2.5m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.8m£1.8m
  • 2021£2.4m£1.1m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2021: Government grants 8%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF PUBLIC EDUCATION IN THE FIELD OF HOW GLOBAL LIVING CONDITIONS AND THE EARTH’S ENVIRONMENT ARE CHANGING, IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, THROUGH THE PRODUCTION AND MAINTENANCE OF PUBLIC ONLINE RESOURCES PRESENTING OBJECTIVE, IMPARTIAL RESEARCH AND RIGOROUS FACTUAL ANALYSIS, FULL, ACCURATE AND RELEVANT INFORMATION TO ASSIST SUCH PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING AND TO INFORM AND IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF PUBLIC DEBATE.SUCH PURPOSES SHALL IN ALL RESPECTS AND AT ALL TIMES BE CONSTRUED AND PROMOTED:(I) IN AN IMPARTIAL, OBJECTIVE, BALANCED AND INDEPENDENT MANNER OBSERVING STRICT POLITICAL NEUTRALITY, AND(II) EXCLUSIVELY FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW RELATING TO CHARITY IN ENGLAND AND WALES.

Grants received

1 grant · £346,105 total

360Giving 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

  • Department of Health and Social Care · £346,105

Most recent

  • Department of Health and Social Care £346,1052020-04-01
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.

5 trustees on the board

2.4y median 3y
average tenure
4y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
9.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (3)

Portfolio (2)

5
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 5General Charitable Purposes 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.

Education 5Business services 2Professional services 2

Gaps to watch

  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

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
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£4.2m 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.

14.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 0.7 in 2020

15
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
1186433
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 13 DEC 2018AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 07 NOV 2019
Companies House
Company number 11725483 · Active
Contact on the register
01865 403178 · info@ourworldindata.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 25th October 2026
Labels
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