Registered charity · London
National Centre for Universities and Business
- 10 trustees
- Income £2.9m (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Paul Ashton WalkerChair · since 2025
- Adele Leana EveryTrustee · since 2022
- David Watson Mcnair BrownTrustee · since 2019
- Jean-Noel EzingeardTrustee · since 2019
- Professor David Roy SandbachTrustee · since 2019
- Professor Ian Hugh WhiteTrustee · since 2022
- Professor Trevor John McmillanTrustee · since 2022
- Robert RaboneTrustee · since 2019
- Sir John Manzoni KCBTrustee · since 2022
- Sir Jonathan Richard SymondsTrustee · since 2022
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Economic/community Development/employment
- Where
- Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
- Website
- www.ncub.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- National Centre for Universities and Business
- Registered
- 1997
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£2.9m£3.1m
- 2024£3.0m£3.1m
- 2023£2.7m£2.7m
Earlier years
- 2022£3.1m£2.8m
- 2021£2.6m£2.8m
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 88%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, TRAINING, RESEARCH AND ALL KINDS OF LEARNING BY THE FOSTERING AND PROMOTION OF MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING, CO-OPERATION AND SUPPORT BOTH IN THE UK AND OVERSEAS BETWEEN EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS AND INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE.
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.
10 trustees on the board
- Paul Ashton Walker Chair since 2025
- Adele Leana Every since 2022
- David Watson Mcnair Brown since 2019
- Jean-Noel Ezingeard since 2019
- Professor David Roy Sandbach since 2019
- Professor Ian Hugh White since 2022
- Professor Trevor John Mcmillan since 2022
- Robert Rabone since 2019
- Sir John Manzoni KCB since 2022
- Sir Jonathan Richard Symonds since 2022
Trustees past 6 years
- David Watson Mcnair Brown since 2019
- Jean-Noel Ezingeard since 2019
- Professor David Roy Sandbach since 2019
- Robert Rabone since 2019
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (6)
- Paul Ashton Walker Chair since 2025
- Adele Leana Every since 2022
- David Watson Mcnair Brown since 2019
- Professor Trevor John Mcmillan since 2022
- Robert Rabone since 2019
- Sir John Manzoni KCB since 2022
Portfolio (4)
- Jean-Noel Ezingeard since 2019
- Professor David Roy Sandbach since 2019
- Professor Ian Hugh White since 2022
- Sir Jonathan Richard Symonds since 2022
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
3.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1066956
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 14TH NOVEMBER 1997 AS AMENDED ON 17 MAR 2022AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 27 SEP 2022
- Companies House
- Company number 03465914 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 02073837667 · ncub@ncub.co.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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