Registered charity · London
National Debate Team
- 6 trustees
- Income £17k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources
Who leads it
- Ben Stephen JasperTrustee · since 2024
- Deborah NewmanTrustee · since 2024
- Isabel Sewell FiddermanTrustee · since 2022
- Louis Dominic Tarnoy CollierTrustee · since 2022
- Thomas Phillip O'ReillyTrustee · since 2020
Also 1 organisation acting as trustee: The English-Speaking Union of the Commonwealth.
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.nationaldebateteam.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- National Debate Team Limited
- Registered
- 2020
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£17k£16k
- 2024£15k£14k
- 2023£14k£22k
Earlier years
- 2022£8k£11k
- 2021£9k£7k
Charitable objects
TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION (INCLUDING THE MENTAL, SOCIAL AND MORAL TRAINING) OF PEOPLE UNDER THE AGE OF 25 FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, IN SUCH WAYS AS THE CHARITY TRUSTEES THINK FIT, IN PARTICULAR BY (THOUGH NOT LIMITED TO):TRAINING AND FINANCIALLY SUPPORTING PUPILS AT SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN ENGLAND AND WALES, OPENLY SELECTED ON MERIT, TO TAKE PART IN INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL EVENTS INVOLVING DEBATING AND PUBLIC SPEAKINGADVANCING THE EDUCATION OF PEOPLE UNDER THE AGE OF 25 IN GENERAL IN THE SUBJECTS OF DEBATING AND PUBLIC SPEAKING, INCLUDING BY PREPARING THE WIDEST POSSIBLE RANGE OF SECONDARY SCHOOL PUPILS IN ENGLAND AND WALES TO TAKE PART IN NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL EVENTS INVOLVING DEBATING AND PUBLIC SPEAKINGASSISTING, ENCOURAGING AND INSPIRING PEOPLE UNDER THE AGE OF 25 IN GENERAL TO DEVELOP THEIR MENTAL, SOCIAL AND MORAL CAPABILITIES THROUGH DEBATING AND PUBLIC SPEAKING.
Board analysis for researchers
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.
5 trustees on the board
- Ben Stephen Jasper since 2024
- Deborah Newman since 2024
- Isabel Sewell Fidderman since 2022
- Louis Dominic Tarnoy Collier since 2022
- The English-Speaking Union of the Commonwealth since 2020
- Thomas Phillip O'Reilly since 2020
Trustees past 6 years
- The English-Speaking Union of the Commonwealth since 2020
- Thomas Phillip O'Reilly since 2020
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (5)
- Ben Stephen Jasper since 2024
- Deborah Newman since 2024
- Isabel Sewell Fidderman since 2022
- Louis Dominic Tarnoy Collier since 2022
- Thomas Phillip O'Reilly since 2020
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.
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Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1191456
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 03 SEP 2019
- Companies House
- Company number 12187671 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 07966806713 · chair@nationaldebateteam.org.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 13th 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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