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Charity Projects

Registered charity 326568 Registered since 1984

Operates: Scotland, Northern Ireland

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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

14.8y
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.

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

Connected through a shared trustee

Also active in the same field

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitewww.comicrelief.com
Emailinfo@comicrelief.com
Phone02078202222
Address6th Floor, The White Chapel Building, 10 Whitechapel High Street, London, E1 8QS

Finances

£51,139,000 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£74,079,000£86,197,000
2022£49,991,000£44,267,000
2023£50,752,000£51,322,000
2024£53,767,000£46,226,000
2025£51,139,000£49,858,000

What it does

What

General Charitable PurposesThe Prevention Or Relief Of PovertyOverseas Aid/famine Relief

Who

Other Charities Or Voluntary BodiesOther Defined Groups

How

Makes Grants To OrganisationsOther Charitable Activities

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.

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

Trustees (15)

15trustees
56median age
1aged 70+

Linked company (Companies House)

Charity Projects · 01806414 · Active

PRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of 'Limited' exemption) · incorporated 05/04/1984

6 governing document(s) held from Companies House.

Connected charities (4)

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