Registered charity · Leicestershire
The Michael Bishop Foundation
- 5 trustees
- Income £2.8m (2025)
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, Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability and 4 more
- Where
- Throughout England And Wales
- Website
- michaelbishopfoundation.org (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 1987
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£2.8m£4.5m
- 2024£4.0m£3.0m
- 2023£3.2m£2.6m
Earlier years
- 2022£2.1m£3.4m
- 2021£3.9m£4.2m
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Charitable objects
TO APPLY INCOME OR CAPITAL FOR THE BENEFIT OF ANY ONE OR MORE QUALIFIED CHARITY DEFINED AS ANY PURPOSE BODY ORGANISATION OR OBJECT IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD WHICH UNDER THE LAW OF ENGLAND SHALL BE RECOGNISED AS EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PROVIDED THAT NO "EXCLUDED PERSON" SHALL BE CAPABLE OF BECOMING A QUALIFIED CHARITY OTHERWISE THAN AS A TRUSTEE FOR CHARITABLE PURPOSES.
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.
5 trustees on the board
- Baron Glendonbrook of Bowdon CBE Chair since 1987
- Joanne Furlong since 2025
- Jonathan David Elliott since 2025
- Martin Peter Ritchie since 2013
- Timothy John BYE since 2015
Trustees past 6 years
- Baron Glendonbrook of Bowdon CBE Chair since 1987
- Martin Peter Ritchie since 2013
- Timothy John BYE since 2015
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (4)
- Baron Glendonbrook of Bowdon CBE Chair since 1987
- Jonathan David Elliott since 2025
- Martin Peter Ritchie since 2013
- Timothy John BYE since 2015
Portfolio (1)
- Joanne Furlong since 2025
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
Gaps to watch
- Several long-serving trustees could step down together
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
120.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 297627
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- TRUST DEED DATED 9TH JULY 1987 as amended on 10 Jun 2025
- Contact on the register
- 01530564388 · jo.furlong@btconnect.com
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 27th 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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