Registered charity · London
The British Library Trust
- 1 trustee
- Income £0 (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th 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
- General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Other Charitable Purposes
- Where
- Throughout England And Wales
- Linked company
- The British Library Trust
- Registered
- 2012
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£0£0
- 2024£0£0
- 2023£0£0
Earlier years
- 2022£0£0
- 2021£0£0
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Charitable objects
4.1 THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO:4.1.1 ADVANCING AND SUPPORTING THE OBJECTS OF THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD AS SET OUT IN SECTION 1 OF THE BRITISH LIBRARY ACT 1972 INCLUDING (BUT NOT LIMITED TO):4.1.1.1 ADVANCING UNDERSTANDING AND APPRECIATION OF, AND PROMOTING ACCESS TO, THE BRITISH LIBRARY COLLECTIONS;4.1.1.2 PROMOTING AND SUPPORTING THE BRITISH LIBRARY AS A NATIONAL CENTRE FOR REFERENCE, STUDY AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AND OTHER INFORMATION SERVICES, IN RELATION BOTH TO SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL MATTERS AND TO THE HUMANITIES; 4.1.1.3 PROMOTING THE AVAILABILITY OF THE SERVICES OF THE BRITISH LIBRARY IN PARTICULAR FOR THE TIME BEING TO INSTITUTIONS OF EDUCATION AND LEARNING, OTHER LIBRARIES AND INDUSTRY; AND4.1.1.4 PROMOTING AND ADVANCING THE DEVELOPMENT AND GOOD STEWARDSHIP OF THE BRITISH LIBRARY COLLECTIONS. 4.1.2 ADVANCING AND SUPPORTING THE EFFICIENT MANAGEMENT OF OTHER LIBRARIES, LIBRARY FACILITIES AND INFORMATION SERVICES THE SUPPORT OF WHICH WOULD BE CONDUCIVE OR COMPLEMENTARY TO THE WORK OF THE BRITISH LIBRARY.4.1.3 FOR THE AVOIDANCE OF DOUBT (AND WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING), THE TRUSTEES MAY FULFILL THE OBJECTS, OR ANY ONE OF THEM, BY MAKING GRANTS OR DISTRIBUTIONS TO THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD OR ANY OTHER PERSON, BODY OR INSTITUTION AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION SEE FIT.
Grants received
9 grants · £47,766,344 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
- ARCADIA · £47,723,524 (4 grants)
- Tuixen Foundation · £42,820 (5 grants)
Most recent
- ARCADIA
- ARCADIA
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.
1 trustees on the board
- Roly Keating since 2012
Trustees past 6 years
- Roly Keating since 2012
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.
Gaps to watch
- Small board - little cover if a trustee leaves
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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Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1148608
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 09 FEB 2012
- Companies House
- Company number 07943525 · Active - Proposal to Strike off
- Contact on the register
- 02074127456 · BLTRUSTCONTACT@BL.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.
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