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Registered charity · London

Bird Song Trust

  • 6 trustees
  • Income £1.7m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 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
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Netherlands
Registered
2020

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.7m£1.4m
  • 2024£18m£192k
  • 2023£49m£229k
Earlier years
  • 2022£324£3k
  • 2021£630k£503k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

THE TRUSTEES SHALL HOLD THE CAPITAL AND INCOME OF THE TRUST FUND UPON TRUST TO APPLY THE INCOME, AND ALL OR SUCH PART OR PARTS OF THE CAPITAL, AT SUCH TIME OR TIMES AND IN SUCH MANNER TO, OR FOR THE BENEFIT OF, SUCH EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE OBJECTS AND PURPOSES IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES MAY IN THEIR DISCRETION THINK FIT, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO:(A) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND HEALTH THROUGH THE DEVELOPMENT OF TREATMENTS AND THERAPEUTIC INTERVENTIONS FOR EATING DISORDERS, INCLUDING ANOREXIA NERVOSA; AND(B) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND LEARNING THROUGH SCHOLARSHIP IN RELATION TO EARLY JUDEO-CHRISTIAN ART AND CULTURE AND ITS IMPACT ON EUROPEAN SOCIETY.

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

4y median 4.5y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

0
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 6General Charitable Purposes 6The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 6

Gaps to watch

  • No commercial or business experience on the board
  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£1.7m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025
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.

120.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 3.0 in 2021

2
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
1191572
Status
Registered
Governing document
TRUST DEED DATED 21 SEP 2020 as amended on 15 Mar 2023 as amended on 27 Jun 2024
Contact on the register
020 7099 5419 · hello@birdsongtrust.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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