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Registered charity · London

Children's Discovery Centre East London

  • 14 trustees
  • Income £3.1m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 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, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage, Economic/community Development/employment and 1 more
Where
Throughout London, Essex
Website
www.discover.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Children's Discovery Centre East London
Registered
1998

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£3.1m£2.6m
  • 2024£2.1m£2.3m
  • 2023£1.8m£2.2m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.6m£2.1m
  • 2021£1.6m£1.5m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 2%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE MAINTAIN IMPROVE AND ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION IN THE ARTS SCIENCES HUMANITIES AND TECHNOLOGY IN PARTICULAR BY THE PROVISION PROMOTION AND MAINTENANCE OF FACILITIES AND AMENITIES FOR THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN, YOUNG PERSONS AND THEIR FAMILIES AND TO RELIEVE POVERTY IN PARTICULAR BY PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN PROVIDING RECREATIONAL OR OTHER LEISURE-TIME FACILITIES AND AMENITIES FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS AND THEIR FAMILIES.

Grants received

40 grants · £3,429,551 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.

14 trustees on the board

4.1y median 4.5y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

11y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (13)

Portfolio (1)

14
company-linked trustees

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

Arts/culture/heritage/science 14Education/training 14Environment/conservation/heritage 14

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 15Professional services 7Other services 6

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£3.1m 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.

0.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 3.6 in 2021

60 from 54 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
1070468
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 11TH DECEMBER 1997 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION ON 26TH JUNE 2000.
Companies House
Company number 03479284 · Active
Contact on the register
02085365555 · bookings@discover.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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