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Registered charity · Berkshire

Make-A-Wish Foundation UK

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £12m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th 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
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.make-a-wish.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Make-A-Wish Foundation UK.
Registered
1986

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£12m£13m
  • 2024£12m£12m
  • 2023£11m£12m
Earlier years
  • 2022£11m£11m
  • 2021£5.1m£5.2m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE AND FURTHER THE CARE AND RELIEF OF CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF EIGHTEEN WHO HAVE A TERMINAL ILLNESS OR WHO ARE SUFFERING FROM A MEDICAL CONDITION SUFFICIENTLY LIFE THREATENING TO CREATE A PROBABILITY THAT THE CHILD WILL NOT SURVIVE BEYOND THEIR EIGHTEENTH BIRTHDAY, AND IN PARTICULAR BY GRANTING FEASIBLE WISHES OF SUCH CHILDREN.

Grants received

8 grants · £644,000 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

Most recent

  • Postcode Care Trust £300,0002025-02-13
  • Postcode Care Trust £10,0002025-02-13
  • SHAREGIFT £2,0002024-03-21
  • Postcode Care Trust £300,0002023-12-01
  • Rothschild Foundation £20,0002023-10-06
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.

9 trustees on the board

2.1y median 2y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

4.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

9
company-linked trustees

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

The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 9

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 9Business services 2Health and social care 1

Gaps to watch

  • 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.

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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£11.9m 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.

3.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 15.4 in 2021

90 from 50 in 2021
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
295672
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 26TH JUNE 1986 AS AMENDED 13 DECEMBER 1999
Companies House
Company number 02031836 · Active
Contact on the register
01276405060 · info@make-a-wish.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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