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Registered charity · London

The London Early Years Foundation

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £37m (2025)
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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
General Charitable Purposes
Where
Throughout London
Website
www.leyf.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The London Early Years Foundation
Registered
1988

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£37m£36m
  • 2024£32m£32m
  • 2023£29m£29m
Earlier years
  • 2022£27m£27m
  • 2021£22m£22m
Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE:2.1 TO PROMOTE THE CARE AND UPBRINGING AND PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE HEALTH OF CHILDREN PARTICULARLY THOSE WHOSE CIRCUMSTANCES MAKE IT NECESSARY OR DESIRABLE FOR THEM TO BE CARED FOR OUTSIDE THE NORMAL HOME ENVIRONMENT; AND2.2 TO PROMOTE EDUCATION AND VOCATIONAL TRAINING IN RESPECT OF ALL MATTERS RELATING TO CHILD CARE, THE UPBRINGING OF CHILDREN AND THE PROTECTION AND HEALTH OF CHILDREN.

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.

8 trustees on the board

4.5y median 4y
average tenure
12y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

8
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 8

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Health and social care 9Hospitality 2Other services 2

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£37.2m 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.

0.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 1.0 in 2021

941 from 788 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.
29%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
299686
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 10/03/1988AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 11/07/1988AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 17/05/1993AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 07/07/1997AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 27/01/2003AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 22/05/2006AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 27/07/2009NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 19/09/2011AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 04 DEC 2017 as amended on 02 Dec 2019
Companies House
Company number 02228978 · Active
Contact on the register
02078348679 · leyf@leyf.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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