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Registered charity · London

Health Data Research UK

  • 14 trustees
  • Income £15m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources

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
Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.hdruk.ac.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Health Data Research UK
Registered
2021

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£15m£26m
  • 2024£11m£18m
  • 2023£86m£32m
Earlier years
  • 2022£65m£33m
Charitable objects

1.TO PROTECT AND PROMOTE THE HEALTH OF THE PUBLIC IN PARTICULAR BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION THROUGH THE USE OF HEALTH DATA SCIENCE BY:I.THE DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF BIOMEDICAL AND HEALTH DATA RESEARCH;II.THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE TOOLS, TECHNOLOGIES, SKILLS AND PARTNERSHIPS REQUIRED TO TRANSFORM HEALTH INFORMATICS RESEARCH AND INNOVATION;III.THE SHARING OF INFORMATION,IN ORDER TO ADVANCE THE UNDERSTANDING, PREVENTION, DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF DISEASES TO ACHIEVE BETTER HEALTH OUTCOMES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC; AND2.THE ADVANCEMENT OF MEDICAL AND HEALTH RESEARCH, IN PARTICULAR BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION BYUNDERTAKING, PROMOTING, DISSEMINATING AND IMPROVING RESEARCH INTO BIOMEDICAL AND HEALTH INFORMATICS.

Board analysis for researchers

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.

2.6y median 2y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

13.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (13)

Portfolio (1)

13
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 14The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 14Arts/culture/heritage/science 13Economic/community Development/employment 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.

Health and social care 22Professional services 15Tech and media 9

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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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 4 years.
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£14.9m latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

21.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 7.3 in 2022

121 from 74 in 2022
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
1194431
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 27 JUL 2017AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 18 OCT 2018AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 07 MAY 2021 as amended on 21 Mar 2024 as amended on 16 Dec 2024
Companies House
Company number 10887014 · Active
Contact on the register
02039503715 · enquiries@hdruk.ac.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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