Registered charity (CIO) · London

Beating Time

6 trustees
Income £669k (2025)

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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th 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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Public contracts won

6 contracts · £109,000 total

From Contracts Finder and Find a Tender, the UK Government's public procurement notices, under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Matched to this organisation by company number, charity number or exact name and postcode; every figure links to its source notice.

Call off Contract Under Prison Education Dynamic Purchasing System for a Peer Employment Project for Prisoners at HMP Pentonville Buyer: Ministry of Justice £13,500 2026-08-18 CPV 80000000 Source: Contracts Finder
Call off Contract Under Prison Education Dynamic Purchasing System for a Peer Employment Project for Prisoners at HMP Pentonville. The supplier will deliver a peer-led recruitment and employment support programme, designed to equip our pris…
Award of a Call-Off Contract under the Prison Education Dynamic Purchasing System for a Choir course for Prisoners at HMP Birmingham Buyer: Ministry of Justice £20,000 2026-05-18 CPV 80000000 Source: Contracts Finder
Award of a Call-Off Contract under the Prison Education Dynamic Purchasing System for a Choir course for Prisoners at HMP Birmingham
Award of a Call-Off Contract under the Prison Education Dynamic Purchasing System for a Peer Led Employment course for Prisoners at HMP Birmingham Buyer: Ministry of Justice £30,000 2026-05-18 CPV 80000000 Source: Contracts Finder
Award of a Call-Off Contract under the Prison Education Dynamic Purchasing System for a Peer Led Employment course for Prisoners at HMP Birmingham
Award of a Call-Off Contract under the Prison Education Dynamic Purchasing System for a Preparation for Employment course for Prisoners at HMP/YOI Isis Buyer: Ministry of Justice £17,000 2026-05-08 CPV 80000000 Source: Contracts Finder
Award of a Call-Off Contract under the Prison Education Dynamic Purchasing System for a Preparation for Employment course for Prisoners at HMP/YOI Isis
Award of a Call-Off Contract under the Prison Education Dynamic Purchasing System for the provision of Creative Art courses for prisoners at HMP Maidstone Buyer: Ministry of Justice £8,500 2026-05-05 CPV 80000000 Source: Contracts Finder
Award of a Call-Off Contract under the Prison Education Dynamic Purchasing System for the provision of Creative Art courses for prisoners at HMP Maidstone
Award of a Call-Off Contract under the Prison Education Dynamic Purchasing System for Singing Group Workshops for Prisoners at HMP/YOI Swinfen Hall Buyer: Ministry of Justice £20,000 2026-04-16 CPV 80000000 Source: Contracts Finder
Award of a Call-Off Contract under the Prison Education Dynamic Purchasing System for Singing Group Workshops for Prisoners at HMP/YOI Swinfen Hall

About

What it does: Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Economic/community Development/employment
Where: Throughout England And Wales
Website: www.beatingtime.org (opens in a new tab)
Registered: 2014

Income and spending

YearIncomeSpending
2025£669k£685k
2024£712k£602k
2023£502k£517k

Earlier years

2022£251k£310k
2021£266k£166k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 25%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE PROMOTION OF THE REHABILITATION OF PRISONERS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY SETTING UP CHOIRS IN PRISONS AS A MEANS TO BUILD THE SKILLS AND CAPACITY OF OFFENDERS SO THAT THEY CAN BREAK THE CYCLE OF RE-OFFENDING ON RELEASE.

Grants received

21 grants · £640,267 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

Henry Smith Foundation · £214,940 (2 grants)
Garfield Weston Foundation · £105,000 (2 grants)
The Tudor Trust · £100,000
A B Charitable Trust · £75,000 (4 grants)
The Leathersellers' Foundation · £30,227

Most recent

A B Charitable Trust £20,0002025-09-22
The National Lottery Community Fund £20,0002025-08-21
The Leathersellers' Foundation £30,2272025-06-25
Henry Smith Foundation £4,9402025-03-11
A B Charitable Trust £20,0002024-10-10

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.

6 trustees on the board

3.7y median 3.5y

average tenure

longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

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 6Economic/community Development/employment 6Education/training 6

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.

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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£669k 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.

2.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months

9 from 7 in 2023

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: 1158013
Status: Registered
Governing document: CIO - Association Registered 25 Jul 2014
Contact on the register: 07783880919 · info@beatingtime.org
Edition: Register edition compiled 27th September 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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