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Registered charity · Edinburgh

School of Hard Knocks

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £1.5m (2026)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 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, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Economic/community Development/employment
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland
Website
www.schoolofhardknocks.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
School of Hard Knocks
Registered
2012

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2026£1.5m£1.4m
  • 2025£1.3m£1.3m
  • 2024£1.5m£1.5m
Earlier years
  • 2023£1.8m£1.8m
  • 2022£1.6m£1.5m

Income trend, 2022 to 2026.

Income source mix, 2026: Government contracts 4%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO ASSIST PERSONS WHO MAY HAVE NEED OF SUPPORT BY VIRTUE OF POOR HEALTH, DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES AND PROGRAMMES OF PHYSICAL, EDUCATIONAL AND OTHER ACTIVITIES AS A MEANS OF: A) ADVANCING LIFE AND BY DEVELOPING SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE PERSONS TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS INDEPENDENT, MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS; B) ADVANCING EDUCATION; C) RELIEVING UNEMPLOYMENT; D) ADVANCING PHYSICAL, MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH AND WELL BEING.

Grants received

16 grants · £946,356 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.

10 trustees on the board

3.7y median 3y
average tenure
10y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

9
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Economic/community Development/employment 10Education/training 10The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 10

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Arts and leisure 13Construction 7Property 7

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£1.3m latest income
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.

1.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 1.7 in 2021

23 from 22 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
1147009
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 15 JUL 2011AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 30 SEP 2016
Companies House
Company number 07743730 · Active
Contact on the register
02037140127 · info@schoolofhardknocks.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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