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Registered charity · Exeter

Cooperative AI Foundation

  • 5 trustees
  • Income £2.3m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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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
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.cooperativeai.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Cooperative AI Foundation
Registered
2022

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£2.3m£2.8m
  • 2024£2.4m£1.7m
  • 2023£2.0m£2.3m
Earlier years
  • 2022£2.4m£92k

Income trend, 2022 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 2%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

(A) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, IN PARTICULAR (BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY) BY PROMOTING AND SUPPORTING RESEARCH INTO ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (“AI”) AND RELATED FIELDS, WITH A FOCUS ON COOPERATIVE INTELLIGENCE IN THE CONTEXT OF AI SYSTEMS, AND TO DISSEMINATE THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH.(B) TO PROMOTE THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF THE SAFETY AND HEALTH OF THE PUBLIC BY PROMOTING THE USE, DEVELOPMENT AND REGULATION OF AI SYSTEMS IN WAYS THAT ARE SAFE FOR THE PUBLIC.FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS CLAUSE, “COOPERATIVE INTELLIGENCE” REFERS TO METHODS FOR ACHIEVING OR ENHANCING COOPERATION (WITH OTHER AI SYSTEMS AND/OR WITH HUMANS).

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

2.6y median 1y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
2.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (5)

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 5

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Professional services 5

Gaps to watch

  • Narrow spread of causes across the board
  • Mostly recent joiners - limited long-term continuity

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 3 years.
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£2.4m 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.

18.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 120.0 in 2022

6 from 3 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
1201294
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 30 JUN 2021AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 17 NOV 2022AS REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 07 DEC 2022
Companies House
Company number 13485176 · Active
Contact on the register
01600 717615 · operations@cooperativeaifoundation.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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