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Registered charity · Birmingham

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors' Benevolent Fund Limited

The objects for which the Company is established (the “Objects”) are restricted to:2.1 the prevention or relief of poverty of the Beneficiaries; and2.2 the relief of those Beneficiaries who are in need by reason of youth, age, ill health,...

  • 13 trustees
  • Income £1.8m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Other Charitable Purposes
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Canada, France, Ghana and more
Website
www.lionheart.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors' Benevolent Fund Limited
Registered
1970

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.8m£2.1m
  • 2024£1.7m£2.5m
  • 2023£2.1m£2.2m
Earlier years
  • 2022£2.0m£2.1m
  • 2021£3.0m£1.9m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

The objects for which the Company is established (the “Objects”) are restricted to:2.1 the prevention or relief of poverty of the Beneficiaries; and2.2 the relief of those Beneficiaries who are in need by reason of youth, age, ill health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage;2.3 the protection and preservation of health, and in particular mental health, of the Beneficiaries; and 2.4 Such other charitable purposes for the benefit of the Beneficiaries as the Trustees, in their absolute discretion, may from time to time determine,in each case for the public benefit.

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.

13 trustees on the board

2.9y median 2y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (13)

10
company-linked trustees

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

General Charitable Purposes 13The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 13The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 13

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 11Construction 6Property 4

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£1.8m 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.

10.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 15.1 in 2021

27 from 26 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
261245
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEM AND ARTS OF ASS'N INCORP'D 19 MAY 1970 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESN'S OF 19 MAY 1983, 26 MAY 1988, 4 NOV 1991, 11 DEC 1997 AND 13 DEC 2007 AND BY A SCHEME OF THE HIGH COURT OF N. IRELAND DATED 1 OCT 1984. ARTS OF ASS'N RECORDED AT CO HSE 6 OCT 2010AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 23 APR 2020 as amended on 26 May 2020
Companies House
Company number 00980025 · Active
Contact on the register
0121 289 3300 · info@lionheart.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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