Registered charity · Surrey
The Band AID Charitable Trust
- 6 trustees
- Income £3.5m (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources
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
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Overseas Aid/famine Relief
- Where
- Eritrea, Ethiopia, Guinea, Kenya and more
- Registered
- 1985
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£3.5m£4.0m
- 2024£2.5m£3.1m
- 2023£2.4m£2.5m
Earlier years
- 2022£1.9m£1.8m
- 2021£2.1m£1.0m
Charitable objects
1. THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND HUNGER IN ETHIOPA AND THE REGION THEREOF 2. THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND THE PRESERVATION OF HEALTH AMONG PEOPLE RESIDING PERMANENTLY OR TEMPORARILY IN AFRICA OR SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE OBJECTS RELATING TO AFRICA AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE
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.
6 trustees on the board
- SIR Robert Geldof KBE Chair since 1985
- Chris Morrison since 1985
- Harvey Goldsmith CBE since 1985
- John Kennedy since 1985
- Lord Michael Grade CBE since 1985
- Midge URE since 1985
Trustees past 6 years
- SIR Robert Geldof KBE Chair since 1985
- Chris Morrison since 1985
- Harvey Goldsmith CBE since 1985
- John Kennedy since 1985
- Lord Michael Grade CBE since 1985
- Midge URE since 1985
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (6)
- SIR Robert Geldof KBE Chair since 1985
- Chris Morrison since 1985
- Harvey Goldsmith CBE since 1985
- John Kennedy since 1985
- Lord Michael Grade CBE since 1985
- Midge URE since 1985
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Gaps to watch
- No commercial or business experience on the board
- Several long-serving trustees could step down together
- Narrow spread of causes across the board
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
16.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 40.0 in 2020
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 292199
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- DECLARATION OF TRUST OF 24 APRIL 1985 AS AMENDED BY SCHEMES OF 24 JANUARY 1985 AND 14 NOVEMBER 2014 AND AS AMENDED BY THE TRUSTEES ON 6 SEPTEMBER 2005
- Contact on the register
- 02071977172
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 13th 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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