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Registered charity · Manchester

AQA Education

AQA Education is a registered charity (number 1073334) based in Manchester, governed by 13 trustees and chaired by David Laws since 2024. Latest income £280m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 25th October 2026.

Also known as AQA (Charity Commission)

  • 13 trustees
  • Income £280m (2025)
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About

What it does
Education/training
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.aqa.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
AQA Education
Registered
1999

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£280m£266m
  • 2024£269m£253m
  • 2023£218m£251m
Earlier years
  • 2022£148m£130m
  • 2021£136m£133m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2022: Government grants 3%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

1) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, BY THE PREPARATION, VALIDATION, ACCREDITATION, CONDUCT AND ADMINISTRATION OF:A) EXAMINATIONS FOR THE AWARD OF GENERAL CERTIFICATE OF EDUCATION, GENERAL CERTIFICATE OF SECONDARY EDUCATION AND GENERAL NATIONAL VOCATIONAL QUALIFICATION OR SUCH OTHER CERTIFICATES AS MAY BE SUBSTITUTED FOR THEM; ANDB) ANY OTHER TESTS, EXAMINATIONS OR OTHER SYSTEMS OF ASSESSING AND RECORDING ACADEMIC OR OTHER ACHIEVEMENT

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

2.5y median 2y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (3)

13
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 13Arts/culture/heritage/science 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 27Finance 21Professional services 5

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£280.1m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025
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.

7.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 11.0 in 2021

1798 from 1281 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
1073334
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 30/09/1998AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 30/11/1998AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 05/01/1999AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 05/04/2000AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 23/04/2002AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 17/02/2004AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 01/07/2004AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 27/04/2006AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 27/10/2009AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 22/02/2012AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 01/10/2012AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 03/12/2014 AS AMENDED ON 28 MAR 2019AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 02 OCT 2019
Companies House
Company number 03644723 · Active
Contact on the register
0800 197 7162 · GovernanceTeamAQA@aqa.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 25th October 2026
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