Registered charity (CIO) · London
Speakers for Schools
- 7 trustees
- Income £5.7m (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
- Education/training
- Where
- Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Isle Of Man
- Website
- www.speakers4schools.org (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 2013
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£5.7m£6.1m
- 2024£6.4m£6.4m
- 2023£7.8m£8.5m
Earlier years
- 2022£8.9m£7.5m
- 2021£3.1m£2.9m
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts under 1%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN YOUNG PEOPLE ATTENDING SCHOOLS AND HIGHER EDUCATION COLLEGES, PRIMARILY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN THE UK AND IN PARTICULAR:(A) ESTABLISHING AND MAINTAINING A NETWORK OF RESPECTED, QUALIFIED, EXPERIENCED AND INSPIRING VOLUNTARY SPEAKERS WILLING TO GIVE TALKS TO YOUNG PEOPLE WITH A VIEW TO INFORMING THEM OF EDUCATIONAL AND VOCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES AND ENCOURAGING AND ENABLING THEM TO TAKE THOSE OPPORTUNITIES;(B) ARRANGING, RECORDING AND DISSEMINATING LECTURES, CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE IN ALL MEDIA ON ACADEMIC, VOCATIONAL, CULTURAL AND ETHICAL SUBJECTS; AND(C) IMPROVING AND EXPANDING INFORMED, CONFIDENT AND MOTIVATED CAREER CHOICES IN YOUNG PEOPLE BY PROVIDING AND FACILITATING LINKS BETWEEN THEM AND EMPLOYERS AND THE USEFUL AND EXCITING EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION AND EXPERIENCE BETWEEN THEM.
Grants received
9 grants · £50,067 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
- Community Foundation in Wales · £20,500 (7 grants)
- Garfield Weston Foundation · £20,000
- Westminster Foundation · £9,567
Most recent
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.
7 trustees on the board
- Andrew Eric LAW since 2012
- Edward Amory since 2025
- Joe Mathewson since 2024
- Robert James Kenneth Peston since 2012
- Roland Dacre Rudd since 2012
- Ruth Spellman since 2022
- Sakhila Mona Mirza since 2019
Trustees past 6 years
- Andrew Eric LAW since 2012
- Robert James Kenneth Peston since 2012
- Roland Dacre Rudd since 2012
- Sakhila Mona Mirza since 2019
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (5)
- Edward Amory since 2025
- Joe Mathewson since 2024
- Robert James Kenneth Peston since 2012
- Ruth Spellman since 2022
- Sakhila Mona Mirza since 2019
Portfolio (2)
- Andrew Eric LAW since 2012
- Roland Dacre Rudd 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
- Several long-serving trustees could step down together
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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
0.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 3.4 in 2021
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1150411
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CIO - FOUNDATION REGISTERED ON 09/01/2013
- Contact on the register
- 0300 365 5888 · info@speakers4schools.org
- 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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