Registered charity · York
BIG Tent Foundation
- 8 trustees
- Income £386k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources
Who leads it
- Vasiliki Vicky PryceChair · since 2025
- Dr Paul GoldsmithTrustee · since 2021
- GUY DE SelliersTrustee · since 2021
- Lord Andrew LansleyTrustee · since 2021
- Magdelena PolanTrustee · since 2021
- Michael HollandTrustee · since 2021
- Nick SilverTrustee · since 2021
- Steffan Aquarone MPTrustee · since 2025
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, 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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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
- Vasiliki Vicky Pryce Chair since 2025
- Dr Paul Goldsmith since 2021
- GUY DE Selliers since 2021
- Lord Andrew Lansley since 2021
- Magdelena Polan since 2021
- Michael Holland since 2021
- Nick Silver since 2021
- Steffan Aquarone MP since 2025
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (8)
- Vasiliki Vicky Pryce Chair since 2025
- Dr Paul Goldsmith since 2021
- GUY DE Selliers since 2021
- Lord Andrew Lansley since 2021
- Magdelena Polan since 2021
- Michael Holland since 2021
- Nick Silver since 2021
- Steffan Aquarone MP since 2025
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.
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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
- 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
- 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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