Registered charity · London

Action Medical Research

8 trustees
Income £7.8m (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does: Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability
Where: Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website: www.action.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company: Action Medical Research
Registered: 1962

Income and spending

YearIncomeSpending
2025£7.8m£9.3m
2024£8.2m£8.6m
2023£8.0m£8.0m

Earlier years

2022£6.1m£7.2m
2021£4.5m£5.3m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2024: Government grants 9%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE, ENCOURAGE, MAINTAIN, IMPROVE AND ADVANCE RESEARCH INTO THE PREVENTION, CURE, MANAGEMENT AND ALLEVIATION OF DISABLING DISEASES AND CONDITIONS PROVIDED THAT THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH SHALL BE DISSEMINATED FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT.

Grants received

22 grants · £2,428,550 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

Henry Smith Foundation · £1,808,300 (16 grants)
Garfield Weston Foundation · £360,000 (2 grants)
Masonic Charitable Foundation · £250,000
The Shears Foundation · £5,000
The Grocers' Charity · £5,000

Most recent

Quartet Community Foundation £2502026-03-20
Garfield Weston Foundation £140,0002023-09-11
Masonic Charitable Foundation £250,0002022-07-20
The Shears Foundation £5,0002021-10-27
The Grocers' Charity £5,0002021-06-02

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.

8 trustees on the board

Luke George Batchelor Bordewich Chair since 2015
Bhavin Patel since 2025
Clare Joanna Elizabeth Ferguson since 2023
Karen Ann Last since 2019
Professor David Edwards since 2016
Professor Stephanie Schorge since 2022
Richard Duncan Wild since 2017
Richard Jonathan Stoneham-Buck since 2019

6.5y median 7y

average tenure

11y

longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

Luke George Batchelor Bordewich Chair since 2015
Karen Ann Last since 2019
Professor David Edwards since 2016
Richard Duncan Wild since 2017
Richard Jonathan Stoneham-Buck since 2019

13.1y

average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

Luke George Batchelor Bordewich Chair since 2015
Bhavin Patel since 2025
Clare Joanna Elizabeth Ferguson since 2023
Professor Stephanie Schorge since 2022
Richard Duncan Wild since 2017
Richard Jonathan Stoneham-Buck since 2019

Portfolio (2)

Karen Ann Last since 2019
Professor David Edwards since 2016

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 8The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 8Disability 7General Charitable Purposes 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.

Professional services 9Education 5Finance 3

Gaps to watch

Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.

2021

2022

2023

2024

2025

incomespending£7.8m 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.

5.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 14.6 in 2021

42 from 38 in 2021

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: 208701
Status: Registered
Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 12 MAY 1955 AS AMENDED 8 DECEMBER 1959, 7 AUGUST 1990, 10 JULY 1996 AND 7 JULY 1999, AND 30 OCTOBER 2007 as amended on 17 Jun 2022
Companies House: Company number 00549089 · Active
Contact on the register: 01403210406 · info@action.org.uk
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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