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Scope

Scope is a registered charity (number 208231) based in Press Centre, governed by 14 trustees. Latest income £44m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 18th October 2026.

  • 14 trustees
  • Income £44m (2025)
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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
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Disability, Accommodation/housing and 1 more
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland
Website
www.scope.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Scope
Registered
1962

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£44m£53m
  • 2024£47m£49m
  • 2023£44m£52m
Earlier years
  • 2022£44m£45m
  • 2021£34m£36m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts under 1% · Government grants 2%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AND FOR GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSES ACCORDING TO THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES AND IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY FOR THE PROMOTION OF EQUALITY, DIVERSITY, INDEPENDENCE, AND HEALTH OF DISABLED PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY THOSE WITH CEREBRAL PALSY

Grants received

65 grants · £16,137,230 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £11,096,661 (32 grants)
  • CAF · £1,500,000
  • People's Health Trust · £1,486,870 (10 grants)
  • Postcode Care Trust · £600,000 (2 grants)
  • Department of Health and Social Care · £567,705

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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.

14 trustees on the board

1.1y median 1y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
4.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (11)

Portfolio (3)

13
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 14General Charitable Purposes 14Disability 12Accommodation/housing 1Religious Activities 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.

Education 13Business services 2Finance 2

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£44.0m latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

3.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 10.7 in 2021

817 from 723 in 2021
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.
2%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
208231
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 20/06/1953AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 09/02/1963AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 02/11/1968AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 07/11/1992AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 26/03/1994AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 23/11/1996AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 07/11/1998AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 13/09/2003AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 14/10/2006AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 23/02/2008AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 23/10/2010AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 29/03/2014AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 26 NOV 2016 as amended on 23 May 2024
Companies House
Company number 00520866 · Active
Contact on the register
02076197308 · cosec3@scope.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 18th October 2026
Labels
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