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Registered charity · London

The Social Market Foundation

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £1.1m (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
Education/training
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.smf.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Social Market Foundation
Registered
1990

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.1m£1.0m
  • 2024£951k£961k
  • 2023£1.1m£978k
Earlier years
  • 2022£858k£822k
  • 2021£697k£689k
Charitable objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCES INCLUDING, BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING, THE STUDY OF THE PERFORMANCE OF MARKETS AND THE SOCIAL FRAMEWORK WITHIN WHICH THEY OPERATE, BOTH IN GREAT BRITAIN AND ABROAD

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.

5.8y median 6.5y
average tenure
10y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

14.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (5)

Portfolio (3)

8
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 8Arts/culture/heritage/science 1Economic/community Development/employment 1The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 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.

Education 15Other services 2Property 2

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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£1.1m 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.

5.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 4.4 in 2021

15 from 11 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
1000971
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 31ST AUGUST 1990 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION PASSED 6 NOVEMBER 1990 AND 13 MARCH 2008.
Companies House
Company number 02537035 · Active
Contact on the register
02034889425 · enquiries@smf.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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