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The Cordwainers Educational and Training Charitable Trust Company

Registered charity 1050213 Registered since 1995

Operates: Hackney

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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.

4.8y median 5.5y
average tenure
10y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

17.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

Portfolio (4)

9
company-linked trustees

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

Accommodation/housing 10Education/training 10General Charitable Purposes 1Other Charitable Purposes 1The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 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 10Professional services 10Arts and leisure 5

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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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£12.1m latest income · income exceeded spending 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.

120.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 78.2 in 2021

3 from 1 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.

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.

Related organisations

Connected through a shared trustee

Also active in the same field

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitewww.cordwainers.org
Emailcharity@cordwainers.org
Phone02079291121
AddressThe Cordwainers Company, Saddlers' House, Gutter Lane, London, EC2V 6BR

Finances

£12,094,156 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£666,116£634,022
2022£837,318£715,653
2023£905,892£782,039
2024£978,084£819,314
2025£12,094,156£757,529

What it does

What

Education/trainingAccommodation/housing

Who

Children/young PeopleOther Defined Groups

How

Makes Grants To OrganisationsProvides Buildings/facilities/open SpaceProvides Services

Charitable objects

THE PROMOTION OF EDUCATION AND IN PARTICULAR BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING:- 1.THE PROVISION OF ACCOMMODATION FOR INDIVIDUALS UNDERGOING VOCATIONAL AND EDUCATIONAL TRAINING. 11.THE CREATION OF SCHOLARSHIPS, BURSARIES, PRIZES AND THE SUPPORT OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING THROUGH GRANTS AND AWARDS.

Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 6TH SEPTEMBER 1995

Trustees (10)

10trustees
66median age
4aged 70+

Linked company (Companies House)

The Cordwainers Educational and Training Charitable Trust Company · 03100993 · Active

PRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of 'Limited' exemption) · incorporated 06/09/1995

3 governing document(s) held from Companies House.

Connected charities (5)

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