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Registered charity · Kent

The Cremation Society of Great Britain

The Cremation Society of Great Britain is a registered charity (number 209978) based in Kent, governed by 9 trustees and chaired by Professor Hilary Joyce Viner OBE since 2008. Latest income £9.5m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 25th October 2026.

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £9.5m (2025)
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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
Education/training, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.cremation.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Cremation Society of Great Britain
Registered
1963

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£9.5m£8.5m
  • 2024£8.9m£7.9m
  • 2023£8.9m£7.9m
Earlier years
  • 2022£7.9m£7.7m
  • 2021£8.5m£7.6m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

1) TO PROMOTE THE PRACTICE OF CREMATION FOR THE RESPECTFUL DISPOSAL OF THE BODIES OF DEAD PERSONS AND 2) TO ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION IN THE PRACTICE AND ETHICS OF CREMATION3. TO INVESTIGATE METHODS OF DISPOSING OF THE BODIES OF DEAD PERSONS WHICH APPEAR TO THE SOCIETY TO BE SUPERIOR TO CREMATION AND, IF THE SOCIETY THINKS FIT, TO PROMOTE SUCH METHODS AND ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION IN THEIR PRACTICE AND ETHICS EITHER INSTEAD OF OR IN ADDITION TO CREMATION

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.

7.1y median 7y
average tenure
18y
longest tenure
10y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

Portfolio (3)

7
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 9Environment/conservation/heritage 9General Charitable Purposes 2The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 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.

Tech and media 8Health and social care 2Education 1

Gaps to watch

  • 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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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£9.5m 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.

18.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 17.1 in 2021

83 from 82 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.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
209978
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 12TH JULY 1922 AS AMENDED 2ND APRIL 1930, 29TH MARCH 1974, 1ST DECEMBER 1977, 14 OCTOBER 2004 AND 17TH JUNE 2008 as amended on 29 Oct 2018
Companies House
Company number 00183397 · Active
Contact on the register
01622688292 · info@cremation.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 25th October 2026
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