Registered charity · London
Council for British Research in the Levant
- 13 trustees
- Income £766k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- John ShakeshaftChair · since 2020
- Dr Carmen TingTrustee · since 2025
- Dr Kamal BadreshanyTrustee · since 2025
- Dr Noam LeschemTrustee · since 2024
- Dr Robert BewleyTrustee · since 2025
- Graham PhilipTrustee · since 2023
- Ivan KotevTrustee · since 2025
- Kate SeabrookTrustee · since 2025
- Professor Louise Anne MartinTrustee · since 2024
- Professor Simon Paul MabonTrustee · since 2024
- Sean Michael HirdTrustee · since 2022
- Timothy Alexander InsollTrustee · since 2023
- Tom ThomsonTrustee · since 2019
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage
- Where
- Throughout England And Wales
- Website
- www.cbrl.ac.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Council for British Research in the Levant
- Registered
- 1998
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£766k£816k
- 2024£891k£857k
- 2023£850k£962k
Earlier years
- 2022£837k£911k
- 2021£895k£895k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Charitable objects
TO ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION THROUGH PROMOTING RESEARCH IN THE HUMANITIES, SOCIAL SCIENCES AND RELATED SUBJECTS IN CONNECTION WITH CYPRUS, ISRAEL, JORDAN, LEBANON, PALESTINE, SYRIA AND ADJACENT TERRITORIES.
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.
13 trustees on the board
- John Shakeshaft Chair since 2020
- Dr Carmen Ting since 2025
- Dr Kamal Badreshany since 2025
- Dr Noam Leschem since 2024
- Dr Robert Bewley since 2025
- Graham Philip since 2023
- Ivan Kotev since 2025
- Kate Seabrook since 2025
- Professor Louise Anne Martin since 2024
- Professor Simon Paul Mabon since 2024
- Sean Michael Hird since 2022
- Timothy Alexander Insoll since 2023
- Tom Thomson since 2019
Trustees past 6 years
- Tom Thomson since 2019
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (12)
- John Shakeshaft Chair since 2020
- Dr Carmen Ting since 2025
- Dr Kamal Badreshany since 2025
- Dr Noam Leschem since 2024
- Dr Robert Bewley since 2025
- Graham Philip since 2023
- Ivan Kotev since 2025
- Kate Seabrook since 2025
- Professor Louise Anne Martin since 2024
- Professor Simon Paul Mabon since 2024
- Sean Michael Hird since 2022
- Timothy Alexander Insoll since 2023
Portfolio (1)
- Tom Thomson since 2019
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
3.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1073015
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 19TH MAY 1998, AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS PASSED 23RD NOVEMBER 1998, 16 OCTOBER 2002 AND 8TH OCTOBER 2003.
- Companies House
- Company number 03566646 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 02079695296 · info@cbrl.ac.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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