Registered charity (CIO) · London
Association for Citizenship Teaching
- 8 trustees
- Income £853k (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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Public contracts won
2 contracts · £99,919 totalFrom 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.
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ECSC Framework - Lot 10 - Curriculum Subject Drafters (con_31631)
We expect the supplier to produce an excellent PoS for KS 1-4 and content for GCSE in citizenship studies.
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Improving Democratic Education (Young Citizens)
This report presents the procurement process undertaken for the Democratic Education multi-lot and seeks approval to award contracts to the recommended suppliers for each Lot. The objective of this procurement exercise was to secure a range…
About
- What it does
- Education/training
- Where
- Throughout England
- Website
- www.teachingcitizenship.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 2020
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£853k£700k
- 2024£1.2m£674k
- 2023£1.0m£640k
Earlier years
- 2022£1.2m£697k
- 2021£114k£98k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 0%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
THE OBJECT OF THE CIO IS:TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY:(I) SUPPORTING AND PROMOTING THE TEACHING OF CITIZENSHIP; AND (II) PROMOTING RESEARCH INTO, AND THE STUDY OF, THE FULL AND EFFECTIVE PARTICIPATION OF CITIZENS, ESPECIALLY YOUNG PEOPLE, IN SOCIETY AND TO PUBLISH THE RESULTS THEREOF.
Grants received
2 grants · £111,800 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
- Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust · £70,000
- Home Office · £41,800
Most recent
- Home Office
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.
8 trustees on the board
- Helen Blachford Chair since 2020
- Asjad Mir since 2021
- Hans Svennevig since 2020
- Nansi Ellis since 2023
- Rebecca Louise Weighell since 2023
- Richard Glover since 2021
- Sarah Maclean since 2020
- Sera Shortland since 2025
Trustees past 6 years
- Helen Blachford Chair since 2020
- Hans Svennevig since 2020
- Sarah Maclean since 2020
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (7)
- Helen Blachford Chair since 2020
- Asjad Mir since 2021
- Hans Svennevig since 2020
- Rebecca Louise Weighell since 2023
- Richard Glover since 2021
- Sarah Maclean since 2020
- Sera Shortland since 2025
Portfolio (1)
- Nansi Ellis since 2023
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Gaps to watch
- No commercial or business experience on the board
- 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
11.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 2.7 in 2021
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1187335
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 13 Jan 2020
- Contact on the register
- 07595 293899 · info@teachingcitizenship.org.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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