Registered charity · Yeovil

School in A BAG

6 trustees
Income £682k (2025)

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: Education/training
Where: Throughout England, Congo, Guinea-bissau, Jordan and more
Website: www.schoolinabag.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company: School in A BAG
Registered: 2019

Income and spending

YearIncomeSpending
2025£682k£544k
2024£600k£610k
2023£608k£385k

Earlier years

2022£318k£263k
2021£167k£166k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

THE CHARITABLE PURPOSES OF THE CHARITY ARE TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN BY SUCH CHARITABLE MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES DECIDE.

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

5y median 5y

average tenure

longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7.9y

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.

Education/training 6

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

Other services 6Professional services 2Tech and media 2

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.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.

2020

2021

2022

2023

2024

incomespending£600k 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.

5.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 4.4 in 2020

2 from 2 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: 1186357
Status: Registered
Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 30 MAR 2019
Companies House: Company number 11916624 · Active
Contact on the register: 01935849160 · clerk@schoolinabag.org
Edition: Register edition compiled 4th October 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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