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Registered charity · Gloucester

The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education

  • 16 trustees
  • Income £10m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 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
Scotland, Northern Ireland, Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.qaa.ac.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education
Registered
1997

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£10m£11m
  • 2024£8.8m£5.8m
  • 2023£10m£9.5m
Earlier years
  • 2022£9.8m£12m
  • 2021£8.3m£8.3m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 20%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

1. PROMOTION AND MAINTENANCE OF QUALITY AND STANDARDS IN TERTIARY EDUCATION IN THE UK AND ELSEWHERE; 2. ENHANCEMENT OF TEACHING AND LEARNING, AND THE IDENTIFICATION AND PROMOTION OF INNOVATION AND GOOD PRACTICE IN TEACHING AND LEARNING;3. PROVISION OF INFORMATION AND THE PUBLICATION OF REPORTS ON QUALITY AND STANDARDS IN TERTIARY EDUCATION IN THE UK AND ELSEWHERE; AND4. PROVISION OF ADVICE TO GOVERNMENTS, AS REQUESTED, ON ACCESS COURSE RECOGNITION AND IN RELATION TO ALL OR ANY OF THE ABOVE OBJECTS.

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.

4.5y median 3y
average tenure
32y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

9.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (14)

Portfolio (2)

14
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 16Arts/culture/heritage/science 1Other 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 30Other services 4Professional services 3

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£10.1m 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.

7.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 4.9 in 2021

126 from 105 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
1062746
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 27/03/1997AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 16/01/2002AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 01/12/2005AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 30/11/2006AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 03/09/2007AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 02/10/2012AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 14 MAR 2017 as amended on 22 Apr 2021 as amended on 21 Feb 2023 as amended on 15 Mar 2023
Companies House
Company number 03344784 · Active
Contact on the register
07824122527 · compliance@qaa.ac.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
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