The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 30th August 2026

The DHL UK Foundation

Registered charity 327880 Registered since 1988

Operates: Scotland, Northern Ireland, Ireland, Throughout England And Wales

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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.

10 trustees on the board

2.2y median 1y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

Portfolio (1)

9
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 10General Charitable Purposes 10The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 10

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

Business services 12Transport 4Arts and leisure 3

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£637k latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

0.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 13.6 in 2021

10 from 7 in 2022
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

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Contact

Websitewww.dhlukfoundation.org
EmailGoTeachUK@dhl.com
Phone01344384756
Address2 Pine Trees, Chertsey Lane, Staines upon Thames, TW18 3HR

Finances

£636,602 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£440,877£2,113,381
2022£566,800£2,196,451
2023£661,433£2,496,455
2024£544,094£2,390,139
2025£636,602£2,991,031

What it does

What

General Charitable PurposesEducation/trainingThe Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

Who

Children/young PeopleElderly/old PeoplePeople With DisabilitiesOther Charities Or Voluntary BodiesOther Defined GroupsThe General Public/mankind

How

Makes Grants To IndividualsMakes Grants To OrganisationsOther Charitable Activities

Charitable objects

The objects of the Charity (the “Objects”) are, for the public benefit:3.1.1 the advancement of education, training and employment support to young people aged between 5 and 25 years, in particular, but without limitation, those who the Trustees, in their discretion, determine to be disadvantaged; 3.1.2 the relief of need by reason of financial hardship, for current and former employees of the DHL Group (or predecessors of any of the DHL Group entities or their business activities) and their families, at the discretion of the Trustees; and3.1.3 the advancement of general purposes which are exclusively charitable under the law of England and Wales.

Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 22 FEBRUARY 1988 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS DATED 7 JUNE 1988, 22 FEBRUARY 2000 AND 8 DECEMBER 2006 CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 8 SEPTEMBER 2008AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 02 MAR 2018 as amended on 26 Apr 2022 as amended on 16 May 2022

Trustees (10)

10trustees
55median age
0aged 70+

Linked company (Companies House)

The DHL UK Foundation · 02223373 · Active

PRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of 'Limited' exemption) · incorporated 22/02/1988

6 governing document(s) held from Companies House.

Connected charities (2)

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