Registered charity (CIO) · Falme
Footwork UK
Footwork UK is a registered charity (number 1197231) based in Falme, governed by 8 trustees and chaired by Philip Cotton since 2026. Latest income £48k (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 4th October 2026.
- 8 trustees
- Income £48k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Philip CottonChair · since 2026
- Dr Asrat Mengiste MergiaTrustee · since 2024
- Dr Lucinda Claire FullerTrustee · since 2021
- Grethe Lykou PetersenTrustee · since 2021
- James MaughanTrustee · since 2023
- Melanie AnningTrustee · since 2021
- Nancy LEETrustee · since 2021
- Professor Gail Davey OBETrustee · since 2021
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
- Where
- Ethiopia, Burundi, India, Kenya and more
- Website
- www.podo.org (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 2021
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£48k£79k
- 2024£63k£329
- 2023£0£0
Earlier years
- 2022£0£0
Income trend, 2022 to 2025.
Charitable objects
TO RELIEVE SICKNESS AND ADVANCE THE GOOD HEALTH OF THOSE AFFECTED BY PODOCONIOSIS AND OTHER SKIN-RELATED NEGLECTED TROPICAL DISEASES IN AFRICA, ASIA AND LATIN AMERICA, OR IN ANY OTHER PART OF THE WORLD WHERE SUCH A DISEASE OCCURS, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY: A. BRINGING TOGETHER NATIONAL, REGIONAL AND GLOBAL ACTORS TO STRENGTHEN COORDINATION, COLLABORATION AND MUTUAL LEARNING;B. SUPPORTING MORE ENDEMIC COUNTRY GOVERNMENTS AND NON-GOVERNMENT ORGANISATIONS TO DEVELOP NTD MASTER PLANS AND LONG-TERM HEALTH STRATEGIES, ENABLING BETTER ACCESS TO, AND INTEGRATION OF, CARE;C. HARNESSING EVIDENCE -BASED ADVOCACY TO ACCELERATE THE ADOPTION AND SCALE-UP OF INTERVENTIONS FOR TREATMENT AND PREVENTION; ANDD. PROVIDING EDUCATION AND TRAINING TO REDUCE STIGMA AND ADDRESS THE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC IMPACTS OF THE DISEASE.
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.
8 trustees on the board
- Philip Cotton Chair since 2026
- Dr Asrat Mengiste Mergia since 2024
- Dr Lucinda Claire Fuller since 2021
- Grethe Lykou Petersen since 2021
- James Maughan since 2023
- Melanie Anning since 2021
- Nancy LEE since 2021
- Professor Gail Davey OBE since 2021
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (6)
- Philip Cotton Chair since 2026
- Dr Asrat Mengiste Mergia since 2024
- Grethe Lykou Petersen since 2021
- James Maughan since 2023
- Melanie Anning since 2021
- Professor Gail Davey OBE since 2021
Portfolio (2)
- Dr Lucinda Claire Fuller since 2021
- Nancy LEE since 2021
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Gaps to watch
- No commercial or business experience on 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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Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1197231
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 20 Dec 2021
- Contact on the register
- +441273872528 · info@podo.org
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 4th October 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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