Registered charity · London
The Chartered Secretaries' Charitable Trust
4. OBJECTSThe Objects are specifically restricted to the following, for the public benefit:4.1 To help individuals who are in need, by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage, in particular but not...
- 7 trustees
- Income £238k (2025)
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, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Other Charitable Purposes
- Where
- Throughout England And Wales, India, Kenya, Malaysia and more
- Website
- www.cgi.org.uk/about-us/charitable-trust (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- The Chartered Secretaries' Charitable Trust
- Registered
- 2013
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£238k£315k
- 2024£290k£242k
- 2023£180k£206k
Earlier years
- 2022£7k£305k
- 2021£36k£240k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Charitable objects
4. OBJECTSThe Objects are specifically restricted to the following, for the public benefit:4.1 To help individuals who are in need, by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage, in particular but not exclusively by providing financial assistance, services or by any other means as determined by trustees from time to time, to help relieve their need and promote their physical and mental wellbeing who::4.1.1 are or have been members of The Chartered Governance Institute (the “Institute”) (such members being those who are or who have been at any time on the register or registers of the Institute for the United Kingdom, Channel Islands, Isle of Man, Republic of Ireland and Associated Territories) or of any other United Kingdom body which has merged or amalgamated or integrated with the Institute;4.1.2 are graduates, students, employees or former employees of the Institute; 4.1.3 are widows, widowers, surviving civil partners, issue or other dependants of such members, graduates, students, employees or former employees of the Institute; or4.1.4 are or have been in receipt of assistance from the Fund at 17 December 1992.4.2 To promote the education of the public in the law and practice of secretaryship, business administration of commerce, industry and public affairs and subjects related thereto, and in particular but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing by providing prizes and awards to such persons who attain the required excellence of performance at public examinations in approved subjects within the curriculum of the Institute as agreed from time to time.4.3 To advance the education of the public in the law and practice of secretaryship and business administration by undertaking or assisting in the undertaking of research and the publication of the useful results of such research for the public benefit and by such other means as the trustees think fit.
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
- MR F E Curtiss FCG Fcma Chair since 2013
- Claire Louise Robson FCG since 2019
- Derek John Lewis LLB FCG since 2023
- Lisa Melanie Sunner FCG since 2025
- MR A P Theakston FCG since 2014
- MR I J Burger FCG since 2013
- Victoria Margaret Penrice FCG since 2023
Trustees past 6 years
- MR F E Curtiss FCG Fcma Chair since 2013
- Claire Louise Robson FCG since 2019
- MR A P Theakston FCG since 2014
- MR I J Burger FCG since 2013
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (3)
- Claire Louise Robson FCG since 2019
- MR I J Burger FCG since 2013
- Victoria Margaret Penrice FCG since 2023
Portfolio (4)
- MR F E Curtiss FCG Fcma Chair since 2013
- Derek John Lewis LLB FCG since 2023
- Lisa Melanie Sunner FCG since 2025
- MR A P Theakston FCG since 2014
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Gaps to watch
- No commercial or business experience on the board
- 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
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1152784
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 09/07/2013 as amended on 12 Nov 2019
- Companies House
- Company number 08602517 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 020 7612 7049 · CSCT@cgi.org.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 4th October 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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