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Registered charity · London

The Sutton Trust

  • 6 trustees
  • Income £7.1m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources

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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
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland
Website
www.suttontrust.com (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Sutton Trust
Registered
2012

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£7.1m£7.4m
  • 2024£7.5m£8.3m
  • 2023£7.1m£7.6m
Earlier years
  • 2022£5.8m£6.3m
  • 2021£6.1m£4.5m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2024: Government contracts under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

(A)TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC AND TO IMPROVE EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE; AND (B)TO UNDERTAKE SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES OR TO MAKE DONATIONS TO SUCH A CHARITABLE INSTITUTION OR INSTITUTIONS AT SUCH A TIME OR TIMES AND IN SUCH MANNER AS THE TRUSTEES MAY IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION THINK FIT.

Grants received

5 grants · £1,009,365 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.

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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.

6 trustees on the board

1.7y median 2y
average tenure
2y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
11.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (5)

Portfolio (1)

6
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 6Disability 1Economic/community Development/employment 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 14Education 8Finance 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£7.1m 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.

8.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 10.1 in 2021

49 from 31 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
1146244
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 15/02/2012AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 11/11/2015AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 07/12/2015 as amended on 11 Sep 2019 as amended on 21 May 2020 as amended on 05 Nov 2024 as amended on 02 Mar 2026
Companies House
Company number 07951541 · Active
Contact on the register
020 7802 1660 · contact-us@suttontrust.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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