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L'Arche

L'Arche is a registered charity (number 264166) based in London, governed by 8 trustees and chaired by Aedan Michael Mary Macgreevy since 2018. Latest income £22m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 18th October 2026.

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £22m (2025)
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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
Education/training, Disability, Overseas Aid/famine Relief, Accommodation/housing
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland
Website
www.larche.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
L'Arche
Registered
1972

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£22m£22m
  • 2024£20m£21m
  • 2023£18m£18m
Earlier years
  • 2022£16m£16m
  • 2021£15m£14m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 80%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE SOCIETY IS ESTABLISHED TO RELIEVE, ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF AND ADVANCE RELIGION AMONG THE MENTALLY OR PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED AND FOR OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES BENEFICIAL TO THE COMMUNITY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM OR ELSEWHERE.

Grants received

19 grants · £714,774 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

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Community Fund £19,8662026-02-24
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £12,3552025-01-28
  • Community Foundation in Wales £5,0002025-01-14
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £9,6182024-11-25
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £19,1692024-06-06
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

5.9y median 6.5y
average tenure
10y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

18.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (1)

8
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 8Disability 7Overseas Aid/famine Relief 7Accommodation/housing 1General 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.

Health and social care 13Education 4Property 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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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£22.2m 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.

6.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 2.0 in 2021

498 from 443 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
264166
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 18TH MAY 1972 AS AMENDED ON 25TH JANUARY 1978, 24TH JANUARY 1980, 25TH APRIL 1983 AND 27TH NOVEMBER 1993. as amended on 24 Feb 2018
Companies House
Company number 01055041 · Active
Contact on the register
01535656186 · info@larche.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 18th October 2026
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