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The Alchemy Foundation

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £12m (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th 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
Disability, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Economic/community Development/employment, Other Charitable Purposes
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Registered
1985

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£12m£506k
  • 2024£301k£342k
  • 2023£1.2m£191k
Earlier years
  • 2022£51k£270k
  • 2021£48k£624k
Charitable objects

FOR ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE OF PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL IN THEIR UNFETTERED DISCRETION THINK FIT AND IN PARTICULAR IN FAVOUR OF (A) ANY CHARITIES INVOLVED IN PROMOTING THE MATERIAL MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL WELFARE OF:- (I) PERSONS SUFFERING FROM MENTAL OR PHYSICAL ILLNESS OR DISABILITY AND IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT IN ANY WAY LIMITING THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING) BABIES AND CHILDREN SO SUFFERING; (II) PERSONS SUFFERING FROM THE EFFECT OF FAMINE. (B) ANY CHARITY INVOLVED IN PROMOTING THE MATERIAL MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL CARE AND WELFARE OF THE ELDERLY AND DYING. (C) ANY CHARITY INVOLVED IN MEDICAL RESEARCH. (D) ANY CHARITY BENEFITING CHILDREN. (E) THE ORPHEUS TRUST.

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.

4y median 4y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

5.7y
average years in governance
3
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Disability 11Economic/community Development/employment 11The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 11

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 2Hospitality 1Professional 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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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£12.3m 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.

120.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months

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
292500
Status
Registered
Governing document
TRUST DEED DATED 14TH AUGUST 1985 AND SUPPLEMENTAL DEEDS OF 2ND JUNE 1987 AND 17 JUNE 1996 as amended on 04 Dec 2024
Contact on the register
01883 0000000
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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