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Registered charity (CIO) · London

History of Parliament Trust

  • 13 trustees
  • Income £1.5m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources

Who leads it

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, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.historyofparliamentonline.org (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2023

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.5m£1.8m
  • 2024£1.3m£1.1m
Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE:TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN GENERAL ON THE SUBJECT OF THE HISTORY OF PARLIAMENT THROUGH: (A) SCHOLARLY AND HISTORICAL RESEARCH ON THE PARLIAMENT OF THE UNITED KINGDOM AND ITS PREDECESSORS, THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN MEMBERS OF THESE BODIES, PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES AND ELECTIONS, AND PARLIAMENTARY POLITICS AND INSTITUTIONS IN GENERAL; (B) DISSEMINATING AND INTERPRETING THE RESULTS OF THIS RESEARCH TO THE WIDEST POSSIBLE AUDIENCE; (C) THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF RESEARCH BY OTHERS ON THE HISTORY OF PARLIAMENT AND PARLIAMENTARY INSTITUTIONS; AND (D) THE PROMOTION OF RELATED SCHOLARLY AND EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES.

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.

2.4y median 3y
average tenure
4y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
5.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (11)

Portfolio (2)

2
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 13Arts/culture/heritage/science 1

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

Other services 3Tech and media 2Education 1

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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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 2 years.
2024
2025
incomespending£1.5m latest income
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.

5.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 11.1 in 2024

24 from 25 in 2024
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
1202089
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 27 Feb 2023
Contact on the register
02076369269 · website@histparl.ac.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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