Registered charity · London
The Difference Education LTD
- 7 trustees
- Income £1.6m (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 England And Wales
- Website
- www.the-difference.com (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- The Difference Education LTD
- Registered
- 2019
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£1.6m£1.8m
- 2024£1.3m£1.7m
- 2023£1.5m£1.3m
Earlier years
- 2022£1.1m£1.1m
- 2021£1.4m£791k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 10%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, IN PARTICULAR BY (BUT NOT LIMITED TO) TRAINING TEACHERS AND LEADERS TO SUPPORT VULNERABLE CHILDREN.
Grants received
14 grants · £1,769,950 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
- Mission 44 · £454,950 (2 grants)
- Garfield Weston Foundation · £450,000
- KPMG Foundation · £400,000 (2 grants)
- Paul Hamlyn Foundation · £230,000 (3 grants)
- Kurt and Magda Stern Foundation · £150,000 (3 grants)
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.
7 trustees on the board
- Dave Whitaker since 2020
- Giuseppe Di'Iasio since 2025
- Joanne Hutchinson since 2020
- Magdalene Bayim-Adomako since 2022
- Natsayi Shingiso Ngorima Sithole since 2025
- Rupen Shah since 2025
- Sir Anthony Salz since 2022
Trustees past 6 years
- Dave Whitaker since 2020
- Joanne Hutchinson since 2020
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (7)
- Dave Whitaker since 2020
- Giuseppe Di'Iasio since 2025
- Joanne Hutchinson since 2020
- Magdalene Bayim-Adomako since 2022
- Natsayi Shingiso Ngorima Sithole since 2025
- Rupen Shah since 2025
- Sir Anthony Salz since 2022
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
- 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
6.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 19.0 in 2021
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1184843
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 25 MAR 2019
- Companies House
- Company number 11426427 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 07376 943289 · info@the-difference.com
- 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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