Registered charity · London
The Police Foundation
- 9 trustees
- Income £659k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Andrew TiveyTrustee · since 2022
- Dame Sara Thornton DBE QPMTrustee · since 2016
- Hugh SherriffeTrustee · since 2023
- Lord Dholakia of Waltham Brooks PC OBE DLTrustee · since 2001
- Martin InnesTrustee · since 2020
- Mary-Jane CalamTrustee · since 2020
- Michael Cunningham CBE QPMTrustee · since 2021
- Professor Nicholas FyfeTrustee · since 2012
- Stephen RimmerTrustee · since 2020
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Economic/community Development/employment
- Where
- Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
- Website
- www.police-foundation.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 1979
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£659k£772k
- 2024£616k£627k
- 2023£538k£531k
Earlier years
- 2022£441k£495k
- 2021£490k£413k
Charitable objects
THE ADVANCEMENT AND PROMOTION OF EFFICIENT AND EFFECTIVE POLICINGTO UNDERTAKE AND PROMOTE STUDY AND RESEARCH INTO THE METHODS ORGANISATION AND EFFECTIVENESS OF THE POLICE AND THE TRAINING OF POLICE OFFICERS AND TO PUBLISH THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH STUDY AND RESEARCH
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.
9 trustees on the board
- Andrew Tivey since 2022
- Dame Sara Thornton DBE QPM since 2016
- Hugh Sherriffe since 2023
- Lord Dholakia of Waltham Brooks PC OBE DL since 2001
- Mary-Jane Calam since 2020
- Martin Innes since 2020
- Michael Cunningham CBE QPM since 2021
- Professor Nicholas Fyfe since 2012
- Stephen Rimmer since 2020
Trustees past 6 years
- Dame Sara Thornton DBE QPM since 2016
- Lord Dholakia of Waltham Brooks PC OBE DL since 2001
- Mary-Jane Calam since 2020
- Martin Innes since 2020
- Professor Nicholas Fyfe since 2012
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (7)
- Andrew Tivey since 2022
- Dame Sara Thornton DBE QPM since 2016
- Lord Dholakia of Waltham Brooks PC OBE DL since 2001
- Martin Innes since 2020
- Michael Cunningham CBE QPM since 2021
- Professor Nicholas Fyfe since 2012
- Stephen Rimmer since 2020
Portfolio (2)
- Hugh Sherriffe since 2023
- Mary-Jane Calam since 2020
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
5.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 10.9 in 2021
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 278257
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- TRUST DEED DATED 9 JULY 1979 AS AMENDED 1 DECEMBER 1981, 10 DECEMBER 1997, 8 JULY 1998, 10 DECEMBER 1997 AND 11 JULY 2007
- Contact on the register
- 02031953837 · blair.gibbs@police-foundation.org.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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