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Article 19

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £15m (2024)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Education/training, Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity
Where
Bangladesh, Brazil, Cambodia, Iran and more
Website
www.article19.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Article 19
Registered
1987

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£15m£15m
  • 2023£17m£17m
  • 2022£15m£15m
Earlier years
  • 2021£14m£13m
  • 2020£12m£10m

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Income source mix, 2023: Government grants 8%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC BY UNDERTAKING PROMOTING AND COMMISSIONING RESEARCH INTO THE MAINTENANCE AND OBSERVANCE THROUGHOUT THE WORLD OF THE RIGHT TO FREEDOM OF OPINION AND EXPRESSION WITHIN THE MEANING OF ARTICLE 19 OF THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE DISSEMINATION OF THE RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH

Grants received

1 grant · £900,000 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 · £900,000

Most recent

  • Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office £900,0002023-04-01
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.

11 trustees on the board

3.6y median 3y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

4.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (11)

10
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Education/training 11Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity 11

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 10Professional 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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£15.0m 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.

0.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months

169 from 166 in 2020
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
327421
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 05/02/1987AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 15/07/2009
Companies House
Company number 02097222 · Active
Contact on the register
02073242500 · info@article19.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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