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The British RED Cross Society

The British RED Cross Society is a registered charity (number 220949) based in London, governed by 12 trustees. Latest income £294m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 4th October 2026.

Also known as British RED Cross (Charity Commission)

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £294m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

Also 4 organisations acting as trustee: Dennis Dunn MBE JP DL, Katie Igras, Kirsty Robeson, Yaseer Ahmed.

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

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People on this board also govern

Similar charities are matched by type of organisation or purpose and listed by latest income; shared trustees are formal board links. Neither is proof the organisations work together.

Public contracts won

2 contracts · £216,362 total

From Contracts Finder and Find a Tender, the UK Government's public procurement notices, under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Matched to this organisation by company number, charity number or exact name and postcode; every figure links to its source notice.

  • First Aid Training Buyer: West Northamptonshire Council £60,000 2026-04-30 CPV 80511000 Source: Contracts Finder

    Face to face first aid training for WNC staff. Covers provision of 3 day First Aid training, 2 day Refresher training, 1 day Emergency First Aid training and half day annual refresher training for Adults Service staff only.

  • High Intensity User Service (North Lincolnshire) Buyer: NHS HUMBER AND NORTH YORKSHIRE INTEGRATED CARE BOARD £156,362 2025-02-04 CPV 85312310 Source: Contracts Finder

    The service will provide effective management, co-ordination and signposting of High Intensity Users of the local Emergency Department (ED) at Scunthorpe General Hospital (North Lincolnshire). The service will reduce the activity High Inten…

About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability and 2 more
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Djibouti and more
Website
www.redcross.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
British RED Cross Society
Registered
1963

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£294m£305m
  • 2024£287m£310m
  • 2023£331m£323m
Earlier years
  • 2022£439m£367m
  • 2021£227m£235m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 11% · Government grants 19%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

(A) TO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE TO VICTIMS OF ARMED CONFLICTS (B) TO WORK FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF HEALTH, FOR THE PREVENTION OF DISEASE AND FOR THE PREVENTION AND ALLEVIATION OF HUMAN SUFFERING IN THE BRITISH ISLANDS AND THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.

Grants received

209 grants · £118,894,222 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

  • Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office · £60,301,464 (14 grants)
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £17,095,045 (49 grants)
  • Postcode International Trust · £12,350,000 (4 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £10,410,924 (9 grants)
  • LUND TRUST · £6,928,496 (2 grants)

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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

2.2y median 2y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

  • Dennis Dunn MBE JP DL since 2019
  • Louise Halpin since 2020
  • Yaseer Ahmed since 2019
9.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

Portfolio (2)

3
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 8General Charitable Purposes 7The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 7Disability 1Environment/conservation/heritage 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.

Finance 4Arts and leisure 3Education 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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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£287.1m 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.

2.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months

3286 from 3356 in 2020
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.
29%
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
220949
Status
Registered
Governing document
ROYAL CHARTER GRANTED 22ND JULY 1997, REVISED BY ORDER IN COUNCIL ON 17 JULY 2003.
Companies House
Company number RC000070 · Active
Contact on the register
0344 871 11 11 · contactus@redcross.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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