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Registered charity · London

Switchboard Lgbt+

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £595k (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
General Charitable Purposes, Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
switchboard.lgbt (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Switchboard Lgbt +
Registered
1987

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£595k£737k
  • 2024£576k£686k
  • 2023£659k£412k
Earlier years
  • 2022£489k£370k
  • 2021£439k£263k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

TO RELIEVE MEMBERS OF THE LGBT+ COMMUNITIES SUFFERING FROM MENTAL OR EMOTIONAL DISABILITY OR DESPAIR AND TO PROMOTE THEIR WELL-BEING BY COUNSEL AND/OR HELP.

Grants received

6 grants · £51,175 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

  • Comic Relief · £20,525
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £19,650 (3 grants)
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £10,000
  • The Tudor Trust · £1,000

Most recent

  • Comic Relief £20,5252021-09-08
  • The Tudor Trust £1,0002021-03-02
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £10,0002021-02-23
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £10,0002017-04-11
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £4,6502010-10-14
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

1.6y median 1y
average tenure
4y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
3.1y
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.

General Charitable Purposes 9Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity 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 9Arts and leisure 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£595k 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.

20.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 55.4 in 2021

8 from 5 in 2023
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
296193
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 10 FEBRUARY 1987, AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS DATED 5 APRIL 1987, APRIL 14 2002, 23 OCTOBER 2005, 31 JANUARY 2007 AND 18 OCTOBER 2008.AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 11 JAN 2018 as amended on 31 Jul 2018 as amended on 25 Apr 2020 as amended on 03 May 2021 as amended on 30 Apr 2022 as amended on 15 Oct 2022 as amended on 22 Apr 2023 as amended on 13 Apr 2024
Companies House
Company number 02098685 · Active
Contact on the register
02078868782 · admin@switchboard.lgbt
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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