Skip to content
Governance Register
Sign inFind yourself
Find yourselfSign in
Search How it works For organisations For professionals

Edition

United Kingdom (current)IrelandUnited StatesNew ZealandCanadaAustraliaScotlandNorthern Ireland

Registered charity · Cambridge

The Perse School

  • 18 trustees
  • Income £40m (2025)
How am I connected?
More
View network map Report an issue

Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

Network

The large node is The Perse School. Red nodes are organisations, white nodes are people. Sign in free to explore further.

Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

Do you help lead this organisation? Set up its network · How it works

About

What it does
Education/training
Where
Cambridgeshire
Website
www.perse.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Perse School
Registered
2007

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£40m£37m
  • 2024£38m£34m
  • 2023£35m£31m
Earlier years
  • 2022£32m£28m
  • 2021£30m£26m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2021: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION BY THE PROVISION AND CONDUCT OF THE SCHOOL KNOWN AS THE PERSE SCHOOL CAMBRIDGE TOGETHER WITH WITH ANY OF ITS AFFILIATED OR SUBSIDIARY SCHOOLS (HOWSOEVER THE SAME SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME BE KNOWN) AND BY ANCILLARY OR INCIDENTAL EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES AND ANY OTHER ASSOCIATED ACTIVITIES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE.

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.

4.2y median 4y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure
10y
average years in governance
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 17Arts/culture/heritage/science 1General Charitable Purposes 1Religious 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 27Retail and trade 7Other services 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.

🔒 Succession forecast is a Pro feature - the board seats likely to open in the next year and the ideal next trustee. Explore Pro →

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£40.1m 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.

0.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 1.7 in 2021

419 from 370 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
1120654
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 2006 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS DATED 13 MARCH 2008 AND 10 DECEMBER 2009 AND 26/614 AND 9/8/14
Companies House
Company number 05977683 · Active
Contact on the register
01223403874 · schooloffice@perse.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 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.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Report an issue · How we handle data