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Registered charity · London

Leonard Cheshire Disability

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £141m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources

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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Disability
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Bangladesh, China, India and more
Website
www.leonardcheshire.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Leonard Cheshire Disability
Registered
1985

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£141m£140m
  • 2024£152m£151m
  • 2023£153m£162m
Earlier years
  • 2022£158m£163m
  • 2021£154m£162m
Charitable objects

TO RELIEVE THE CONSEQUENCES OF PHYSICAL AND/OR MENTAL DISABILITY BY THE PROVISION, IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND OVERSEAS, OF ACCOMMODATION, SERVICES AND SUPPORT FOR THE SPIRITUAL, SOCIAL, PHYSICAL AND/OR MENTAL WELLBEING OF DISABLED PEOPLE, BY SUCH MEANS AS ARE CHARITABLE, WHATEVER THEIR RACE, NATIONALITY, CREED, SEX OR AGE.

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

2.3y median 3y
average tenure
3y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
6.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (11)

11
company-linked trustees

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

Disability 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 14Property 11Professional services 5

Gaps to watch

  • Narrow spread of causes across 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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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£141.2m 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.

6.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 0.2 in 2021

2606 from 5281 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.
78%
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
218186
Status
Registered
Governing document
INCORPORATED 03/08/1955AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 22/03/2011AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 27/02/2012AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 23/10/2014AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 06 NOV 2017 as amended on 08 Mar 2023
Companies House
Company number 00552847 · Active
Contact on the register
02032420200 · info@leonardcheshire.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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