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Registered charity · London

The Common Purpose Charitable Trust

  • 6 trustees
  • Income £6.7m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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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, France, Germany, Hungary and more
Website
www.commonpurpose.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Common Purpose Charitable Trust
Registered
1993

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£6.7m£6.8m
  • 2024£6.9m£7.1m
  • 2023£5.5m£6.2m
Earlier years
  • 2022£5.4m£5.3m
  • 2021£4.4m£4.3m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 3% · Government grants 3%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AND IN PARTICULAR BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING TO EDUCATE MEN AND WOMEN FROM A BROAD RANGE OF GEOGRAPHICAL POLITICAL ETHNIC INSTITUTIONAL SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC BACKGROUNDS IN CONSTITUTIONAL CIVIC ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL STUDIES WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON CIVIL AND SOCIAL AWARENESS AND RESPONSIBILITY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND ELSEWHERE PROVIDED ALWAYS THAT NOTHING CONTAINED IN THE MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION SHALL AUTHORIZE OR BE DEEMED TO AUTHORISE THE CARRYING ON OF ANY ACTIVITY FOR ANY PURPOSES SAVE THOSE REGARDED AS CHARITABLE BY THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES

Grants received

13 grants · £631,551 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.

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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.

6 trustees on the board

8y median 8y
average tenure
12y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

11.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (5)

Portfolio (1)

6
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 6General Charitable Purposes 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 16Health and social care 2Other services 2

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together
  • 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.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£6.7m 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.

0.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 3.1 in 2021

61 from 75 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.
5%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1023384
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 29/06/1993AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 03/12/1997AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 09/12/1998 as amended on 28 Mar 2025
Companies House
Company number 02832875 · Active
Contact on the register
02076088100 · info@commonpurpose.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
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