Registered charity · London
The WOW Foundation
- 10 trustees
- Income £1.3m (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Sandie OkoroChair · since 2021
- Barbara ReevesTrustee · since 2019
- Dame Alison Rose DBETrustee · since 2025
- Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon MBETrustee · since 2021
- DR Vanessa Jane OgdenTrustee · since 2023
- Nazir AfzalTrustee · since 2022
- Nusrath HassanTrustee · since 2019
- Richard David Collier-KeywoodTrustee · since 2020
- Sandi Toksvig OBETrustee · since 2024
- Shevaun HavilandTrustee · since 2020
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, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity and 1 more
- Where
- Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
- Website
- www.thewowfoundation.com (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- The WOW Foundation
- Registered
- 2020
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£1.3m£1.2m
- 2024£1.0m£1.3m
- 2023£1.2m£1.2m
Earlier years
- 2022£1.1m£1.0m
- 2021£941k£737k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2024: Government contracts 4% · Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
THE PROMOTION OF GENDER EQUALITY AND THE ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUNDS OF GENDER FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY:- ADVANCING EDUCATION AND RAISING AWARENESS OF GENDER INEQUALITY;- PROMOTING ACTIVITIES TO FOSTER UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN PEOPLE OF ALL GENDERS TO ACKNOWLEDGE AND UNLOCK PREJUDICES;- CONDUCTING OR COMMISSIONING RESEARCH ON GENDER EQUALITY AND ISSUES AND PUBLISHING THE RESULTS TO THE PUBLIC; AND- CULTIVATING A SENTIMENT IN FAVOUR OF GENDER EQUALITY THROUGH ACTIVITIES.
Grants received
3 grants · £340,000 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
- BBC Children in Need · £300,000
- The Coutts Foundation · £20,000
- Paul Hamlyn Foundation · £20,000
Most recent
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.
10 trustees on the board
- Sandie Okoro Chair since 2021
- Barbara Reeves since 2019
- DR Vanessa Jane Ogden since 2023
- Dame Alison Rose DBE since 2025
- Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon MBE since 2021
- Nusrath Hassan since 2019
- Nazir Afzal since 2022
- Richard David Collier-Keywood since 2020
- Sandi Toksvig OBE since 2024
- Shevaun Haviland since 2020
Trustees past 6 years
- Barbara Reeves since 2019
- Nusrath Hassan since 2019
- Richard David Collier-Keywood since 2020
- Shevaun Haviland since 2020
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (7)
- Sandie Okoro Chair since 2021
- Barbara Reeves since 2019
- DR Vanessa Jane Ogden since 2023
- Dame Alison Rose DBE since 2025
- Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon MBE since 2021
- Nusrath Hassan since 2019
- Sandi Toksvig OBE since 2024
Portfolio (3)
- Nazir Afzal since 2022
- Richard David Collier-Keywood since 2020
- Shevaun Haviland since 2020
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.
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
1.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 2.2 in 2021
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1189880
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 11 MAY 2018AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 02 JUN 2020
- Companies House
- Company number 11355846 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 07980591995 · hello@thewowfoundation.com
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 20th 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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