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Registered charity · London

Centre for London

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £645k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources

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Also 2 organisations acting as trustee: Piali Das Gupta, Tim Donovan.

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 London
Website
www.centreforlondon.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Centre for London
Registered
2013

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£645k£594k
  • 2024£981k£1.4m
  • 2022£1.2m£1.2m
Earlier years
  • 2021£1.0m£1.1m
  • 2020£965k£1.1m

Income trend, 2020 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 20%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE:(1) TO UNDERTAKE, PUBLISH AND PROMOTE THE USEFUL RESULTS OF NON-PARTISAN, OBJECTIVE RESEARCH AND TO HOST PUBLIC EDUCATIONAL EVENTS AND CONFERENCES IN PURSUIT OF THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN ISSUES OF ECONOMIC, SOCIAL, ENVIRONMENTAL AND PUBLIC POLICY WHICH AFFECT LONDON AND OTHER CITIES;(2) TO PROMOTE CIVIC RESPONSIBILITY AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN LONDON AND OTHER CITIES BY:(A) THE PRESERVATION, CONSERVATION AND THE PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE PRUDENT USE OF RESOURCES; (B) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE IN SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES; AND(C) THE PROMOTION OF SUSTAINABLE MEANS OF ACHIEVING ECONOMIC GROWTH AND REGENERATION. SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT MEANS "DEVELOPMENT WHICH MEETS THE NEEDS OF THE PRESENT WITHOUT COMPROMISING THE ABILITY OF FUTURE GENERATIONS TO MEET THEIR OWN NEEDS."

Grants received

20 grants · £706,964 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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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.

10 trustees on the board

3y median 3y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure
3
trustees past 6 years
4.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

8
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.

Education 7Professional services 3Arts and leisure 1

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.
2020
2021
2022
2024
2025
incomespending£645k 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.

0.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 3.0 in 2020

8
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
1151435
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 22/02/2013
Companies House
Company number 08414909 · Active
Contact on the register
02037575555 · hello@centreforlondon.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
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