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Charity Projects

Charity Projects is a registered charity (number 326568) based in London, governed by 15 trustees and chaired by Philip Thomas since 2025. Latest income £51m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 25th October 2026.

  • 15 trustees
  • Income £51m (2025)
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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Overseas Aid/famine Relief
Where
Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.comicrelief.com (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Charity Projects
Registered
1984

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£51m£50m
  • 2024£54m£46m
  • 2023£51m£51m
Earlier years
  • 2022£50m£44m
  • 2021£74m£86m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 4%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

A) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY; B) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION BY MEANS OF THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE ARTS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT; C) THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATIONS IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE PROVIDED THAT SUCH FACILITIES ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT; AND D) THE PROMOTION OF ANY OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC.

Grants received

70 grants · £64,618,030 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

  • Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office · £15,120,209 (19 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £14,552,676 (4 grants)
  • Department for International Development · £12,082,394 (13 grants)
  • National Emergencies Trust · £5,977,023 (6 grants)
  • Postcode International Trust · £4,000,000 (3 grants)

Most recent

Grants given

2,110 grants · £607,181,868 total

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Top recipients

  • The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria · £50,213,566 (7 grants)
  • Tilitonse Foundation · £16,199,000
  • STAR Ghana Foundation · £16,199,000
  • The GAVI Alliance · £16,000,000 (3 grants)
  • UK Community Foundations · £13,441,250 (10 grants)

Most recent

  • GreenFaith Global (fiscal sponsor for Greenfaith Africa) £300,0002026-03-05
  • AIDA £200,0002026-03-05
  • Instituto Cultura, Comunicação e Incidência £300,0002026-03-05
  • Trussell £100,0002026-02-26
  • His Church £250,0002026-02-26
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.

15 trustees on the board

3y median 1y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

14.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (11)

Portfolio (4)

15
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 14The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 14Overseas Aid/famine Relief 13Education/training 2Arts/culture/heritage/science 1Environment/conservation/heritage 1

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 25Professional services 16Finance 7

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£51.1m latest income · income exceeded spending 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.

9.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 5.8 in 2021

155 from 203 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
326568
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 5 APRIL 1984 AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS DATED 18 JANUARY 1990, 19 APRIL 1990, 2 DECEMBER 1992, 10 JUNE 2004, 24 APRIL 2008, AND 5 AUGUST 2009. ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION ADOPTED 26 JANUARY 2011.AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 27/05/2015 as amended on 17 Sep 2019
Companies House
Company number 01806414 · Active
Contact on the register
02078202222 · info@comicrelief.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 25th October 2026
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