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Registered charity · York

BIG Tent Foundation

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £386k (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Economic/community Development/employment
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.bigtent.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
BIG Tent Foundation
Registered
2021

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£386k£295k
  • 2024£237k£101k
  • 2023£228k£217k
Earlier years
  • 2022£226k£183k
Charitable objects

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN A NON-PARTISAN MANNER IN ISSUES OF PUBLIC POLICY [INCLUDING HEALTH, WELLBEING, ECONOMY, COMMUNITY AND HOUSING, EDUCATION, DIVERSITY, EQUALITY AND REPRESENTATION, HUMAN RIGHTS, ENVIRONMENT, AND UK’S RESPONSIBILITY IN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT], IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY:I. BRINGING TOGETHER POLITICAL THINKERS AND ENTREPRENEURIAL AND CULTURAL THOUGHT LEADERS AND THE PUBLIC TO DISCUSS AND DEBATE PUBLIC POLICY IDEAS IN ENVIRONMENTS THAT ARE CONDUCIVE TO OPEN MINDED, COLLABORATIVE AND CIVIL DIALOGUE, SUCH AS PUBLIC FESTIVALS, SUMMITS AND CITIZENS ASSEMBLIES; ANDII. PROMOTING STUDY AND RESEARCH IN ISSUES OF PUBLIC POLICY, PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN RELATION TO REGENERATION IN AREAS OF SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEPRIVATION, AND PUBLISHING THE RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH.

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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

4y median 5y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
13.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

7
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Economic/community Development/employment 8Education/training 8General Charitable Purposes 8

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

Education 7Tech and media 7Finance 3

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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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 4 years.
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£386k latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1195014
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 15 OCT 2020AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 29 JUN 2021
Companies House
Company number 10918359 · Active
Contact on the register
07469159134 · ben@bigtent.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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