Registered charity · London

The Froebel Trust

11 trustees
Income £604k (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does: Education/training
Where: Throughout England And Wales, Australia, Germany, India and more
Website: www.froebeltrust.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company: The Froebel Trust
Registered: 2011

Income and spending

YearIncomeSpending
2025£604k£906k
2024£675k£1.1m
2023£619k£1.2m

Earlier years

2022£564k£727k
2021£511k£689k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT THE ADVANCEMENT AND UNDERSTANDING OF FROEBELIAN PRINCIPLES OF EDUCATION IN LEARNING WITHIN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND THE INTERNATIONAL FIELD.

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.

11 trustees on the board

Mark Devlin Chair since 2025
Catriona Helen Gill since 2021
Dr Fufy Demissie since 2022
Dr Kate Hoskins since 2022
Dr Lucy Frances Parker since 2019
Dr Sharon Colilles since 2021
Holli Williams since 2019
Hugo Sean Alleyne since 2025
Lilah Woods since 2019
Michael Pearson since 2017
Professor Jean-Noel Ezingeard since 2019

5.2y median 5y

average tenure

longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

Dr Lucy Frances Parker since 2019
Holli Williams since 2019
Lilah Woods since 2019
Michael Pearson since 2017
Professor Jean-Noel Ezingeard since 2019

8.4y

average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

Catriona Helen Gill since 2021
Dr Fufy Demissie since 2022
Dr Kate Hoskins since 2022
Dr Lucy Frances Parker since 2019
Dr Sharon Colilles since 2021
Holli Williams since 2019
Lilah Woods since 2019
Michael Pearson since 2017
Professor Jean-Noel Ezingeard since 2019

Portfolio (2)

Mark Devlin Chair since 2025
Hugo Sean Alleyne since 2025

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 11Disability 1General Charitable Purposes 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 13Finance 3Health and social care 3

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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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£604k latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

120.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 0.0 in 2021

5 from 4 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: 1145128
Status: Registered
Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 28 NOV 2011AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 29 JUN 2017
Companies House: Company number 07862112 · Active
Contact on the register: 02088787546 · office@froebeltrust.org.uk
Edition: Register edition compiled 20th 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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