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Registered charity · London

National Centre for Social Research

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £53m (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
Where
Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
natcen.ac.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
National Centre for Social Research
Registered
2002

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£53m£52m
  • 2024£52m£51m
  • 2023£49m£51m
Earlier years
  • 2022£49m£47m
  • 2021£43m£38m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 77%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ARE THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION THROUGH RESEARCH INTO THE SOCIAL POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC SCIENCES, THE DISSEMINATION TO THE PUBLIC OF THE RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH AND FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES INCIDENTAL THERETO.

Grants received

18 grants · £1,235,313 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

  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology · £959,472 (8 grants)
  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy · £248,501 (8 grants)
  • Trust for London · £27,340
  • Nesta ·

Most recent

  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology £4,0942023-04-27
  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology £314,0712023-02-16
  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology £250,1232023-02-16
  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology £173,8572022-11-08
  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology £131,2712022-11-08
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.

12 trustees on the board

3.5y median 4y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

14.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (2)

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 12Arts/culture/heritage/science 1Environment/conservation/heritage 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.

Professional services 28Other services 6Arts and leisure 5

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£53.2m 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.

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

394 from 283 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.
63 days
Latest accounts filed after the due dateiFiled after the due dateDate the accounts were received minus the reporting due date, latest filed cycle, Charity Commission register.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1091768
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 12TH MARCH 2002 AS AMENDED 6 FEBRUARY 2008AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 19 JUL 2017
Companies House
Company number 04392418 · Active
Contact on the register
02072501866 · info@natcen.ac.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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