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Registered charity (CIO) · London

Purposeful Ventures

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £17m (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, Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Throughout England And Wales, United States, Ireland
Website
purposefulventures.org (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2023

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£17m£16m
  • 2024£23m£13m

Income trend, 2024 to 2025.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT:1) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION; AND2) TO RELIEVE THOSE IN NEED BY REASON OF YOUTH, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE,IN SUCH MANNER AS THE CHARITY TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE, INCLUDING THROUGH PROVIDING SUPPORT AND ACTIVITIES WHICH DEVELOP SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE FULL PARTICIPATION IN SOCIETY.

Grants received

2 grants · £110,000 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

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.

8 trustees on the board

1.8y median 2y
average tenure
3y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
3.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (1)

1
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Arts/culture/heritage/science 8Education/training 8General Charitable Purposes 8

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 6Business services 1Construction 1

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 2 years.
2024
2025
incomespending£17.3m latest income · income exceeded spending 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.

1.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months

42 from 26 in 2024
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
1204622
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 07 Sep 2023
Contact on the register
02045702151 · info@purposefulventures.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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