Registered charity · United Kingdom
National College for Digital Skills
- 4 trustees
- Income £5.4m (2025)
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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About
- What it does
- Education/training
- Where
- Throughout London
- Website
- www.ada.ac.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- National College for Digital Skills LTD.
- Registered
- 2014
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£5.4m£5.5m
- 2024£5.8m£4.4m
- 2023£2.4m£3.3m
Earlier years
- 2022£2.5m£2.6m
- 2021£1.9m£2.0m
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Charitable objects
TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN GENERAL ON THE SUBJECT OF COMPUTING AND RELATED DISCIPLINES, INCLUDING BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY ESTABLISHING AND SUPPORTING EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS WHICH TEACH COMPUTING AND RELATED DISCIPLINES.
Grants received
3 grants · £112,500 total360Giving 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
- Garfield Weston Foundation · £100,000 (2 grants)
- ZING · £12,500
Most recent
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.
4 trustees on the board
- Nicholas Wilcock Chair since 2015
- Christopher Cherry since 2025
- Gillian Lancaster since 2025
- Mark Smith since 2016
Trustees past 6 years
- Nicholas Wilcock Chair since 2015
- Mark Smith since 2016
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (3)
- Christopher Cherry since 2025
- Gillian Lancaster since 2025
- Mark Smith since 2016
Portfolio (1)
- Nicholas Wilcock Chair since 2015
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
Gaps to watch
- Several long-serving trustees could step down together
- Narrow spread of causes across 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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
1.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 4.0 in 2021
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1158399
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 06/11/2013AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 07/04/2014AS REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 29/04/2014AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 10/06/2014AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 29/01/2015
- Companies House
- Company number 08763964 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 02031050125 · mark@ada.ac.uk
- 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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