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Registered charity · London

Stroke Association

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £44m (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
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Isle Of Man and more
Website
www.stroke.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Stroke Association
Registered
1963

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£44m£45m
  • 2024£42m£44m
  • 2023£40m£38m
Earlier years
  • 2022£41m£32m
  • 2021£35m£34m
Charitable objects

(A) WORKING FOR THE PREVENTION OF STROKE; (B) EDUCATING THE PUBLIC IN ALL MATTERS CONCERNING STROKE; (C) CARRYING OUT, PROMOTING OR SPONSORING RESEARCH INTO THE PREVENTION OR TREATMENT OF STROKE OR OTHER CONDITIONS WHERE THE EFFECTS ARE SIMILAR TO STROKE, THE REHABILITATION AND LONG-TERM CARE OF STROKE SURVIVORS AND PUBLISHING THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH; (D) RESPONDING TO THE NEEDS CAUSED BY THE EFFECTS OF STROKE, OR OTHER CONDITIONS WHERE THE EFFECTS ARE SIMILAR TO STROKE, BY PROVIDING ADVICE AND SUPPORT TO THOSE AFFECTED, THEIR FAMILIES AND CARERS.

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.

11 trustees on the board

5.3y median 5y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

11y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (1)

10
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 11General Charitable Purposes 11The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 11

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 17Finance 5Business services 3

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 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£44.4m 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.

9.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 6.3 in 2021

822 from 644 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.
24%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
211015
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 25/03/1899AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 14/04/1976AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 25/03/1994AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 31/03/2000AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 17/10/2001AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 11/10/2005AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 16/10/2007NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 12/07/2011AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 11/05/2012 as amended on 24 Sep 2018 as amended on 18 Nov 2019
Companies House
Company number 00061274 · Active
Contact on the register
02075660300 · info@stroke.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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