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Registered charity · Middlesex

Tearfund

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £80m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

Also 2 organisations acting as trustee: Alfred Weyers Biehler, Andrew Fraser Mackie.

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

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About

What it does
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Overseas Aid/famine Relief, Religious Activities
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Brazil and more
Website
www.tearfund.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Tearfund
Registered
1973

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£80m£78m
  • 2024£83m£83m
  • 2023£85m£90m
Earlier years
  • 2022£79m£77m
  • 2021£81m£78m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts under 1% · Government grants 4%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

(A) THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE COMPANY IS ESTABLISHED ARE: (1) (A) TO RELIEVE POVERTY, SUFFERING AND DISTRESS AND PREVENT DISEASE AND ILL HEALTH AMONG THE PEOPLES OF THE WORLD; AND (B) TO PROMOTE CHRISTIAN EDUCATION AND FAITH AND AS TO BOTH THE OBJECTIVES SET OUT IN SUB-PARAGRAPH (A) AND (B) IN THIS SUB-CLAUSE BY WHEREVER POSSIBLE WORKING IN PARTNERSHIP WITH OR THROUGH FELLOW CHRISTIANS SUCH OBJECTIVES TO BE PURSUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE FOLLOWING PRINCIPLES; (I) THE BIBLE IS THE AUTHORITATIVE WORD OF GOD AND IS THE GUIDING RULE OF ALL CHRISTIAN BELIEF AND BEHAVIOUR. (II) WHEREVER POSSIBLE THE SUPERVISION OF ANY PROJECT SUPPORTED BY THE COMPANY WILL BE IN THE HANDS OF CHRISTIANS WHO WHOLEHEARTEDLY SUPPORT THE ETHOS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE COMPANY; AND (III)THE STATEMENT OF FAITH SET OUT AT THE END OF THESE ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION.

Grants received

25 grants · £2,189,773 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.

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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.

10 trustees on the board

4.5y median 5y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

11.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

9
company-linked trustees

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

Overseas Aid/famine Relief 10Religious Activities 10The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 10

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 11Other services 6Professional services 2

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£80.2m 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.

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

893 from 1237 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.
4%
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
265464
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 13 NOV 1970AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 23 MAR 1988AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 24 NOV 1993AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 24 NOV 1999AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 05 MAY 2004AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 19 SEP 2007NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 17 JAN 2010AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 15 SEP 2016AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 28 SEP 2016AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 31 JUL 2024AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 02 OCT 2024
Companies House
Company number 00994339 · Active
Contact on the register
020 3906 3906 · legal@tearfund.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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