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Registered charity · London

Helpage International

  • 14 trustees
  • Income £32m (2025)
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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, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Overseas Aid/famine Relief and 1 more
Where
Bangladesh, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Cambodia and more
Website
www.helpage.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Helpage International
Registered
1983

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£32m£34m
  • 2024£34m£42m
  • 2023£41m£40m
Earlier years
  • 2022£29m£22m
  • 2021£22m£21m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

THE PROMOTION OF THE WELFARE OF THE AGED IN ANY MANNER WHICH NOW OR HEREAFTER MAY BE DEEMED TO BE CHARITABLE BY LAW ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD AND FOR SUCH OTHER ANCILLARY CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE BOARD MEMBERS MAY DETERMINE.

Grants received

7 grants · £7,558,973 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 Community Fund · £7,558,973 (7 grants)

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Community Fund £488,0842008-12-11
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £493,7872008-04-16
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £5,053,4282008-02-07
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £9,9852007-06-11
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £519,2212007-06-11
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.

3.5y median 2y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

5.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (14)

14
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 14The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 14The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 14

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

Professional services 14Education 1Other services 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.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£32.1m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025
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.

1.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 1.9 in 2021

0
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
288180
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 19/10/1983AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 26/07/1994AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 03/12/2003AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 15/04/2005AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 17/11/2006AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 20/10/2011 as amended on 23 Jul 2025
Companies House
Company number 01762840 · Active
Contact on the register
+44 20 72787778 · info@helpage.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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