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Registered charity · London

British Humanist Association

  • 15 trustees
  • Income £3.5m (2024)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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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, Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity, Other Charitable Purposes
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Guernsey and more
Website
www.humanism.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
British Humanist Association
Registered
1983

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£3.5m£3.7m
  • 2023£3.4m£3.2m
  • 2022£2.6m£2.7m
Earlier years
  • 2021£2.7m£2.3m
  • 2020£3.2m£2.2m

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Income source mix, 2021: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

4.1.1. THE ADVANCEMENT OF HUMANISM, NAMELY A NON-RELIGIOUS ETHICAL LIFESTANCE THE ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF WHICH ARE A COMMITMENT TO HUMAN WELLBEING AND A RELIANCE ON REASON, EXPERIENCE AND A NATURALISTIC VIEW OF THE WORLD;4.1.2. THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND IN PARTICULAR THE STUDY OF AND THE DISSEMINATION OF KNOWLEDGE ABOUT HUMANISM AND ABOUT THE ARTS AND SCIENCE AS THEY RELATE TO HUMANISM;4.1.3. THE PROMOTION OF EQUALITY AND NON-DISCRIMINATION AND THE PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AS DEFINED IN INTERNATIONAL INSTRUMENTS TO WHICH THE UNITED KINGDOM IS PARTY, IN EACH CASE IN PARTICULAR AS RELATES TO RELIGION AND BELIEF;4.1.4. THE PROMOTION OF UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN PEOPLE HOLDING RELIGIOUS AND NON-RELIGIOUS BELIEFS SO AS TO ADVANCE HARMONIOUS COOPERATION IN SOCIETY.4.2. TO DO ALL SUCH OTHER LAWFUL THINGS AS ARE CONDUCIVE OR INCIDENTAL TO FURTHERING OR ADVANCING ANY OF THE ABOVE-MENTIONED OBJECTS

Grants received

9 grants · £250,629 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

  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £161,204
  • A B Charitable Trust · £69,500 (5 grants)
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £14,925 (2 grants)
  • SHAREGIFT · £5,000

Most recent

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.

15 trustees on the board

2.4y median 2y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

5.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (14)

Portfolio (1)

11
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 15Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity 15Other Charitable Purposes 15

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

Education 11Health and social care 4Arts and leisure 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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£3.5m 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.

13.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 11.5 in 2020

43 from 31 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
285987
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 14/03/1928AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 23/10/1982AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 12/07/1997AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 23/07/2011AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 14/07/2012AS REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 10/12/2012AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 08 JUL 2017 as amended on 31 Dec 2024
Companies House
Company number 00228781 · Active
Contact on the register
02073243066 · andrew@humanism.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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