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Registered charity · London

The Conversation Trust (UK) Limited

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £2.7m (2025)
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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, Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.theconversation.com/uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Conversation Trust (UK) Limited
Registered
2013

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£2.7m£2.5m
  • 2024£2.3m£2.5m
  • 2023£2.4m£2.4m
Earlier years
  • 2022£2.2m£2.0m
  • 2021£1.9m£1.7m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 15%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE CHARITYS OBJECTS ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO PROMOTING FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT: THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION INSOFAR AS SO DOING ADVANCES EDUCATION:1) THE PROVISION OF A PLATFORM FOR THE CREATION, AGGREGATION AND COMMUNICATION OF NEWS AND INFORMATION SERVICES RELATING TO THE KNOWLEDGE INDUSTRIES (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO RESEARCH, HIGHER EDUCATION, CONSULTING ETC); AND2) THE COMMUNICATION OF ALL ACADEMIC DISCIPLINES AND THEIR BENEFITS AS BROADLY AS POSSIBLE TO ENRICH SOCIETYS FOUNDATIONS OF KNOWLEDGE, EXPERTISE AND SOLUTIONS.

Grants received

1 grant · 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

Most recent

  • Nesta Amount not published2014-08-21
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.

3.5y median 4y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (2)

12
company-linked trustees

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

Arts/culture/heritage/science 12Education/training 12Disability 1The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 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.

Business services 12Tech and media 3Other services 2

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£2.7m 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.

2.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 3.4 in 2021

39 from 27 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
1151436
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 26 JUL 2012AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 18 JUL 2017
Companies House
Company number 08158264 · Active
Contact on the register
02031086808 · uk-admin@theconversation.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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