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Registered charity · London

Demos

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £1.8m (2024)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 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
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.demos.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Demos
Registered
1994

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£1.8m£1.7m
  • 2023£1.4m£1.3m
  • 2022£1.1m£1.1m
Earlier years
  • 2021£1.4m£1.4m
  • 2020£1.5m£1.3m

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Income source mix, 2024: Government contracts 2%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

(1)TO PROMOTE EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN ISSUES OF POLITICS, ECONOMICS, TECHNOLOGY AND THE DIGITAL ECONOMY, METHODS AND PRACTICES OF PUBLIC DELIBERATION, THE ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC POLICY. (2)TO PROMOTE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT RESEARCH IN ANY OF THE ABOVE FIELDS OF EDUCATION AND TO PUBLISH THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH. (3)TO FURTHER SUCH OTHER PURPOSES WHICH ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE UNDER THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL DETERMINE, WITH A FOCUS ON PREVENTING SOCIAL EXCLUSION, PROMOTING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, PROMOTING THE EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF PUBLIC SERVICES, AND RELIEVING POVERTY. (4)FOR THE PURPOSES OF ARTICLE [3]: A. “SOCIAL EXCLUSION” MEANS BEING EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PART OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF BEING A MEMBER OF A SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DEPRIVED COMMUNITY; AND B. “SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT” MEANS DEVELOPMENT WHICH MEETS THE NEEDS OF THE PRESENT WITHOUT COMPROMISING THE ABILITY OF FUTURE GENERATIONS TO MEET THEIR OWN NEEDS.

Grants received

10 grants · £308,650 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

Most recent

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

2.8y median 1y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

11.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

Portfolio (2)

11
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 11General Charitable Purposes 1Overseas Aid/famine Relief 1The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 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 12Professional services 7Finance 5

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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£1.8m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2023 and 2024
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.

4.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months

21 from 19 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
1042046
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 11TH OCTOBER 1994, AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 11 MARCH 1999 as amended on 22 May 2018 as amended on 25 Jun 2019 as amended on 11 Mar 1999
Companies House
Company number 02977740 · Active
Contact on the register
02038783955 · hello@demos.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
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