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Registered charity · London

The Council of the Inns of Court

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £4.8m (2024)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Education/training, Other Charitable Purposes
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Ghana, Netherlands, Poland and more
Website
www.coic.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Dossormca, Consulting Engineers and Surveyors Limited
Registered
2014

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£4.8m£4.7m
  • 2023£4.0m£3.5m
  • 2022£3.1m£3.2m
Earlier years
  • 2021£2.5m£3.3m
  • 2020£3.2m£2.9m

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE COUNCIL ARE:2.1 TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN THE ADMINISTRATION AND PRACTICE OF THE LAW AND RELATED DISCIPLINES, INCLUDING BY PROVIDING COURSES, TRAINING AND EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS, AND BY PROMOTING, UNDERTAKING, AND PUBLISHING RESEARCH; 2.2 TO PROMOTE THE SOUND ADMINISTRATION OF THE LAW, INCLUDING BY:2.2.1 PROMOTING HIGH STANDARDS OF ADVOCACY TO SUPPORT THE RULE OF LAW; AND2.2.2 OVERSEEING AND ENFORCING PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS OF CONDUCT IN RELATION TO THE PROVISION OF ADVOCACY AND RELATED LEGAL SERVICES, IN EACH CASE, ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD AND FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT.

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.

2.6y median 3y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

2.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

0
company-linked trustees

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

Education/training 9Other Charitable Purposes 9

Gaps to watch

  • No commercial or business experience on the board
  • Narrow spread of causes across the board
  • Mostly recent joiners - limited long-term continuity

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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£4.8m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2023 and 2024
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 3.1 in 2020

33 from 23 in 2020
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
1155640
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 06 DEC 2013
Companies House
Company number 08804798 · Active
Contact on the register
02078220760 · info@coic.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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