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Registered charity · Birmingham

The Vegan Society

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £4.9m (2024)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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

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About

What it does
Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Animals, Environment/conservation/heritage and 1 more
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland
Website
www.vegansociety.com (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Vegan Society
Registered
1979

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£4.9m£4.7m
  • 2023£4.7m£4.1m
  • 2022£4.3m£4.4m
Earlier years
  • 2021£4.0m£4.2m
  • 2020£3.5m£3.2m

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Income source mix, 2020: Government grants 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

(A) TO FURTHER KNOWLEDGE OF AND INTEREST IN SOUND NUTRITION AND IN VEGANISM AND THE VEGAN METHOD OF AGRICULTURE AS A MEANS OF INCREASING THE POTENTIAL OF THE EARTH TO THE PHYSICAL, MORAL AND ECONOMIC ADVANTAGE OF HUMANKIND.(B) TO RELIEVE ELDERLY VEGANS WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED

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

1.6y median 0.5y
average tenure
10y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

6.2y
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.

Animals 8Education/training 8The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 8

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Other services 11Education 1Tech and media 1

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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£4.9m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2023 and 2024
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.

6.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 7.8 in 2020

66 from 47 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.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
279228
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 27/12/1979AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 17/10/1981AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 09/11/1985AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 10/10/1987AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 24/09/1988AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 05/12/1992AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 13/11/1993AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 02/12/1995AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 20/11/1999AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 26/10/2002AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 28/10/2006AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 24/11/2007AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 22/11/2008AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 21/11/2009AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 20/11/2010AS REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 29/12/2010AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 30/11/2013AS REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 12/12/2013AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 27/06/2015AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 28 MAY 2016AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 20 MAY 2017 as amended on 19 May 2018 as amended on 18 May 2019 as amended on 18 May 2019 as amended on 18 May 2019 as amended on 15 Aug 2020 as amended on 22 May 2021 as amended on 21 May 2022 as amended on 20 May 2023 as amended on 20 May 2023 as amended on 18 May 2024
Companies House
Company number 01468880 · Active
Contact on the register
0121 5231730 · info@vegansociety.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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