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Registered charity · London

Institute for the Future of Work

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £993k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 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
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.ifow.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Institute for the Future of Work
Registered
2018

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£993k£1.0m
  • 2024£978k£808k
  • 2023£880k£930k
Earlier years
  • 2022£821k£660k
  • 2021£350k£290k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 20% · Government grants 4%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

(A) PROMOTE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC INTO CHANGES TO THE WORLD OF WORK WITH PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVE REGARD TO THE IMPACT OF TECHNOLOGY ON WORK AND SOCIETY;(B) PREVENT OR RELIEVE POVERTY IN THE CONTEXT OF THE IMPACT OF TECHNOLOGY ON WORK AND SOCIETY WITH PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVE REGARD TO THOSE IN NEED BY REASON OF YOUTH, AGE, ILL-HEALTH, DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE; AND(C) ADVANCE ANY SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINE BY, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY,(I) RESEARCH AND POLICY DEVELOPMENT;(II) THE DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING OF NEW AND IMPROVED WAYS OF WORKING AND SUPPORT FOR WORK;(III) RECOMMENDATIONS ON IMPROVING ALL ASPECTS OF WORK; AND(III) ADVOCACY.

Grants received

8 grants · £681,727 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.

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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.

9 trustees on the board

4.1y median 3y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

14.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (2)

9
company-linked trustees

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

General Charitable Purposes 9Education/training 8The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 8Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity 1Overseas Aid/famine Relief 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Finance 18Professional services 16Education 14

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£993k 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.

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

11 from 8 in 2022
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.
24%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1180718
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 19 MAR 2018AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 30 MAY 2018
Companies House
Company number 11263261 · Active
Contact on the register
0203 701 7633 · team@ifow.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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