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Registered charity · Bristol

Jisc

The objects of the charity are restricted to the advancement of education, lifelong learning and research, for the public benefit, through the provision of services to those within higher education, further education, research communities, and...

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £151m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 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, Disability
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.jisc.ac.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Jisc
Registered
2012

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£151m£165m
  • 2024£149m£133m
  • 2023£146m£148m
Earlier years
  • 2022£130m£140m
  • 2021£196m£197m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts under 1% · Government grants 46%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

The objects of the charity are restricted to the advancement of education, lifelong learning and research, for the public benefit, through the provision of services to those within higher education, further education, research communities, and charitable and/or not for profit organisations including those in the public sector and the public at large, principally but not exclusively by the provision and/or maintenance of digital technology, and/or by providing or supporting services connected with or delivered through digital technology and/or the provision of data and associated services. To guide but not so as to restrict those objects the charity has among its aims: i. promoting the adoption and use of information technology in all its forms, including but not limited to digital infrastructure, applications, cloud services, data, security, content, discovery ii. enriching the educational experience and improving the quality of research iii. thought leadership iv. conducting and supporting careers advice and student services

Grants received

17 grants · £61,911,129 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.

Top funders

  • Department for Education · £61,771,764 (10 grants)
  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology · £107,026 (4 grants)
  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy · £32,339 (3 grants)

Most recent

  • Department for Education £5,000,0002023-07-31
  • Department for Education £6,800,0002023-07-31
  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology £5,2132023-03-31
  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology £5,5882022-11-29
  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology £65,6372022-11-01
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.

2.7y median 2y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
8.5y
average years in governance
11
company-linked trustees

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

Disability 12Education/training 12Amateur Sport 1Arts/culture/heritage/science 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.

Other services 17Education 13Finance 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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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£150.7m 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.

9.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 5.4 in 2021

1382 from 862 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.
47%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1149740
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 17/03/2006NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 11/10/2012AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 12/12/2012AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 26/11/2014AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 20 FEB 2017AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 01 FEB 2018AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 28 NOV 2018AS REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 11 DEC 2018AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 13 DEC 2019 as amended on 24 Jul 2020 as amended on 25 Nov 2021 as amended on 18 Jul 2022 as amended on 10 Mar 2025
Companies House
Company number 05747339 · Active
Contact on the register
02036975802 · press@jisc.ac.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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