Registered charity · London
NOW Teach
NOW Teach is a registered charity (number 1189146) based in London, governed by 10 trustees and chaired by Graham Clive Elton since 2019. Latest income £1.7m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 25th October 2026.
- 10 trustees
- Income £1.7m (2025)
The people who lead this organisation are listed below. Create a free account to save it, get alerts and check how you are connected.
Official record Charity Commission · updated 25th October 2026 · Sources · Free, no card or password
Network
The large node is NOW Teach. Red nodes are organisations, white nodes are people. Dashed links are historical or inferred. Click any node to explore.
Who leads it
- Graham Clive EltonChair · since 2019
- Charles Kirwan-TaylorTrustee · since 2025
- Graeme Melville DantonTrustee · since 2019
- James Barrington HUW DarleyTrustee · since 2019
- Katharine Mary WaldegraveTrustee · since 2024
- Lucy HellerTrustee · since 2021
- Lucy Rosamond KellawayTrustee · since 2019
- Paterno Atar OdongTrustee · since 2023
- Prof Carole Samantha TwiseltonTrustee · since 2023
- Robert CraigTrustee · since 2024
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
Do you help lead this organisation? Set up its network · How it works
Similar charities are matched by type of organisation or purpose and listed by latest income; shared trustees are formal board links. Neither is proof the organisations work together.
About
- What it does
- General Charitable Purposes, Education/training
- Where
- Throughout England
- Website
- nowteach.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- NOW Teach
- Registered
- 2020
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£1.7m£1.8m
- 2024£2.9m£2.2m
- 2023£2.1m£2.2m
Earlier years
- 2022£1.9m£1.7m
- 2021£2.2m£1.3m
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 43%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT:(A) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION) IN THE FIELD OF TEACHING BY PROVIDING TRAINING PROGRAMMES WHICH COMBINE STUDY-BASED LEARNING AND SUPERVISED PRACTICE-BASED LEARNING, AND BY ANY OTHER RELEVANT METHODS; AND(B) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF STUDENTS IN ENGLAND & WALES, IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION) BY PROVIDING TRAINEE TEACHERS AND/OR LECTURERS TO EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS INCLUDING SCHOOLS, COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES AND PROMOTING HIGH QUALITY PRACTICE AND LEADERSHIP IN THE FIELD OF TEACHING.
Grants received
3 grants · £300,000 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 · £250,000 (2 grants)
- CHK Foundation · £50,000
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.
10 trustees on the board
- Graham Clive Elton Chair since 2019
- Charles Kirwan-Taylor since 2025
- Graeme Melville Danton since 2019
- James Barrington HUW Darley since 2019
- Katharine Mary Waldegrave since 2024
- Lucy Heller since 2021
- Lucy Rosamond Kellaway since 2019
- Paterno Atar Odong since 2023
- Prof Carole Samantha Twiselton since 2023
- Robert Craig since 2024
Trustees past 6 years
- Graham Clive Elton Chair since 2019
- Graeme Melville Danton since 2019
- James Barrington HUW Darley since 2019
- Lucy Rosamond Kellaway since 2019
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (6)
- Graham Clive Elton Chair since 2019
- Graeme Melville Danton since 2019
- Katharine Mary Waldegrave since 2024
- Lucy Heller since 2021
- Paterno Atar Odong since 2023
- Robert Craig since 2024
Portfolio (4)
- Charles Kirwan-Taylor since 2025
- James Barrington HUW Darley since 2019
- Lucy Rosamond Kellaway since 2019
- Prof Carole Samantha Twiselton since 2023
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.
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
10.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 7.9 in 2021
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1189146
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 09 MAR 2019 as amended on 23 Oct 2025
- Companies House
- Company number 11872096 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 02045854010 · info@nowteach.org.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 25th 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.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Report an issue · How we handle data