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Registered charity · Cheltenham

The Dean Close Foundation

  • 14 trustees
  • Income £64m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
Education/training
Where
Gloucestershire, Monmouthshire, Newport City
Website
www.deanclose.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Dean Close Foundation
Registered
2001

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£64m£35m
  • 2024£33m£33m
  • 2023£30m£30m
Earlier years
  • 2022£28m£28m
  • 2021£25m£25m
Charitable objects

TO PROVIDE AN EDUCATION FOR CHILDREN BASED FIRMLY UPON CHRISTIAN EVANGELICAL PRINCIPLES IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE SCRIPTURES AND THE TEACHING OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND.TO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE WITH THE RESOURCES AVAILABLE TO THE SCHOOL FOR THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN OF PARENTS OF LIMITED MEANS WHO WOULD BENEFIT FROM SUCH AN EDUCATION.

Board analysis for researchers

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

3.9y median 3y
average tenure
11y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

12.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (13)

Portfolio (1)

12
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 14Religious Activities 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 22Finance 14Retail and trade 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£63.8m 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.

13.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 8.0 in 2021

848 from 658 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
1086829
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 04/04/2001AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 14/01/2006AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 13/01/2007NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 01/06/2012AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 12/01/2013AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 24 APR 2016
Companies House
Company number 04193948 · Active
Contact on the register
01242258086 · office@deanclose.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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