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Conway Hall Ethical Society

Conway Hall Ethical Society is a registered charity (number 1156033) based in London, governed by 9 trustees and chaired by Lucas Marshall Whittaker since 2023. Latest income £1.2m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 4th October 2026.

Also known as Conway Hall, South Place Ethical Society (Charity Commission)

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £1.2m (2025)
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About

What it does
Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage, Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity and 1 more
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.conwayhall.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2014

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.2m£1.3m
  • 2024£1.2m£1.2m
  • 2023£1.0m£1.2m
Earlier years
  • 2022£918k£999k
  • 2021£803k£848k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2023: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF STUDY, RESEARCH AND EDUCATION IN HUMANIST ETHICAL PRINCIPLES

Grants received

3 grants · £377,224 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

  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £242,824
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £134,400 (2 grants)

Most recent

  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £242,8242021-10-22
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £46,3002020-08-10
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £88,1002017-08-02
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.

9 trustees on the board

2.8y median 3y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

3.3y
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.

Arts/culture/heritage/science 9Education/training 9Environment/conservation/heritage 9

Gaps to watch

  • No commercial or business experience on the board

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.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£1.2m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025
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: 3.9 months · was 6.9 in 2021

31 from 18 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
1156033
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - Association Registered 06 Mar 2014 as amended on 09 Feb 2021
Contact on the register
02074051818 · ceo@conwayhall.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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