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Registered charity · London

The Association of Accounting Technicians

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £35m (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th 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, Bahrain, Botswana, Bulgaria and more
Website
aat.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Association of Accounting Technicians
Registered
1995

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£35m£37m
  • 2024£34m£33m
  • 2023£33m£30m
Earlier years
  • 2022£32m£25m
  • 2021£29m£26m
Charitable objects

(1) TO ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION AND TO PROMOTE THE STUDY OF THE PRACTICE THEORY AND TECHNIQUES OF ACCOUNTANCY; AND(2)(A) TO PREVENT CRIME; AND(B) TO PROMOTE THE SOUND ADMINISTRATION OF THE LAW FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFITBY PROMOTING AND ENFORCING STANDARDS OF PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT AMONGST THOSE ENGAGED IN ACCOUNTANCY AND MONITORING AND SUPERVISING THEIR COMPLIANCE WITH MONEY LAUNDERING LEGISLATION.

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.

11 trustees on the board

1.8y median 1y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure
1
trustees past 6 years
7.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (1)

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 11

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 8Other services 8Business services 4

Gaps to watch

  • 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£35.2m 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.

10.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 11.5 in 2021

276 from 247 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
1050724
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 26/09/1980AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 23/05/1997AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 19/05/2000AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 18/05/2001AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 21/05/2004AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 17/05/2007AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 06/12/2007AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 16/05/2008AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 21/05/2009AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 21/05/2010NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 20/05/2011AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 19 MAY 2017 AS AMENDED ON 18 SEP 2020AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 01 JUL 2025
Companies House
Company number 01518983 · Active
Contact on the register
02073973052 · aat@aat.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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