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Ican Charity

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £14m (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources

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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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Public contracts won

2 contracts

From Contracts Finder and Find a Tender, the UK Government's public procurement notices, under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Matched to this organisation by company number, charity number or exact name and postcode; every figure links to its source notice.

About

What it does
Education/training
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
speechandlanguage.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
I CAN Charity
Registered
1967

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£14m£14m
  • 2024£21m£20m
  • 2023£11m£12m
Earlier years
  • 2022£9.7m£9.6m
  • 2021£8.7m£8.5m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 3% · Government grants 19%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE COMPANY IS ESTABLISHED FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SPEECH, LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION SKILLS FOR ALL CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE, WITH A PARTICULAR FOCUS ON CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE WITH A DISABILITY.

Grants received

12 grants · £1,233,373 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

Most recent

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.

9 trustees on the board

3.6y median 4y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

Portfolio (1)

9
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 9Accommodation/housing 1Disability 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 14Finance 4Professional services 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£13.7m 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.

2.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 5.1 in 2021

283 from 187 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.
22%
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
210031
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED SEPTEMBER 1908 AS AMENDED 26 JULY 1949, 7 NOVEMBER 1985, 18 SEPTEMBER 1989, 16 SEPTEMBER 1993, 15 SEPTEMBER 1994, 13 JULY 1995, 18 SEPTEMBER 2000, 10 SEPTEMBER 2007 AND 10 SEPTEMBER 2008AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 21 SEP 2016AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 27 SEP 2017 as amended on 11 Jun 2024
Companies House
Company number 00099629 · Active
Contact on the register
02078432510 · information@speechandlanguage.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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