Registered charity · London
Speakers Trust Limited
- 9 trustees
- Income £1.5m (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Alan Leslie ReadTrustee · since 2024
- Andrew RawnsleyTrustee · since 2019
- Charles Anthony LesserTrustee · since 2019
- Elizabeth Frances RunhamTrustee · since 2021
- Javneet GhumanTrustee · since 2024
- Louise Claire LeeTrustee · since 2024
- Martin Robert ThomasTrustee · since 2019
- Piers Frederick LloydTrustee · since 2024
- Simon John Newton HealeTrustee · since 2020
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Economic/community Development/employment
- Where
- Throughout England And Wales, Scotland
- Website
- www.speakerstrust.org (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Speakers Trust Limited
- Registered
- 2010
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£1.5m£1.5m
- 2024£1.4m£1.5m
- 2023£1.2m£1.2m
Earlier years
- 2022£1.3m£1.2m
- 2021£717k£703k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2022: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
THE PROMOTION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT OF EDUCATION IN THE ART AND SCIENCE OF PUBLIC SPEAKING IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND.
Grants received
11 grants · £231,386 total360Giving 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
- Westminster Foundation · £133,824 (3 grants)
- City Bridge Trust · £49,100
- The Grocers' Charity · £10,000 (2 grants)
- The National Lottery Community Fund · £9,994
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport · £9,984
Most recent
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.
9 trustees on the board
- Alan Leslie Read since 2024
- Andrew Rawnsley since 2019
- Charles Anthony Lesser since 2019
- Elizabeth Frances Runham since 2021
- Javneet Ghuman since 2024
- Louise Claire Lee since 2024
- Martin Robert Thomas since 2019
- Piers Frederick Lloyd since 2024
- Simon John Newton Heale since 2020
Trustees past 6 years
- Andrew Rawnsley since 2019
- Charles Anthony Lesser since 2019
- Martin Robert Thomas since 2019
- Simon John Newton Heale since 2020
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (8)
- Alan Leslie Read since 2024
- Andrew Rawnsley since 2019
- Charles Anthony Lesser since 2019
- Elizabeth Frances Runham since 2021
- Javneet Ghuman since 2024
- Louise Claire Lee since 2024
- Piers Frederick Lloyd since 2024
- Simon John Newton Heale since 2020
Portfolio (1)
- Martin Robert Thomas 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
2.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 4.0 in 2021
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1139377
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 28/09/2010AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 22/07/2011AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 06/12/2011
- Companies House
- Company number 06740655 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 02079227902 · info@speakerstrust.org
- 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.
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