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Registered charity · Mansfield

Portland College

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £23m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

Also 1 organisation acting as trustee: Joe Butler.

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Education/training, Disability
Where
Nottinghamshire
Website
www.portland.ac.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Portland College
Registered
1963

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£23m£21m
  • 2024£21m£18m
  • 2023£16m£16m
Earlier years
  • 2022£14m£13m
  • 2021£12m£12m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 85% · Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF AND PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES BY ANY AND EVERY MEANS INCLUDING ANY OR ALL OF THE FOLLOWING: 1. ASSESSING THEIR SPECIFIC LEARNING AND SUPPORT NEEDS; 2. FACILITATING LEARNING AND TRAINING IN A SUPPORTIVE ENVIRONMENT IN ORDER TO IMPROVE THEIR QUALITY OF LIFE AND PROVIDE THEM WITH THE KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS TO AID PROGRESS TO THE NEXT STAGE OF THEIR LIFE GOALS; 3. PROMOTING THEIR INDEPENDENCE, SELF-SUFFICIENCY AND THEIR CAPACITY FOR EMPLOYMENT AND SOCIAL ENTERPRISE OPPORTUNITIES; 4. PROVIDING APPROPRIATE RESIDENTIAL AND OTHER ACCOMMODATION TO MEET THEIR PERSONAL CARE NEEDS; 5. PROMOTING AND ORGANISING SPORTING, LEISURE AND RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES AND EVENTS FOR THEM; 6. PROMOTING EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES; AND 7. TO UNDERTAKE SUCH OTHER APPROPRIATE ACTIVITIES AS WILL SUPPORT AND FACILITATE THE ABOVE.

Grants received

25 grants · £1,266,383 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

  • Sport England £2,2252026-02-11
  • Sport England £12,7752025-12-16
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £199,9962024-02-29
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £19,9252024-01-19
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport £42,5002023-12-01
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

6.3y median 7y
average tenure
11y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

12y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

Portfolio (1)

8
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Disability 9Education/training 9General Charitable Purposes 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 10Arts and leisure 5Professional services 3

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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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£23.0m 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.

9.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 2.2 in 2021

671 from 343 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.
86%
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
214339
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 12TH APRIL 1946 NOW ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION OF 24 FEBRUARY 2010 REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 23 MARCH 2010
Companies House
Company number 00408340 · Active
Contact on the register
01623499101 · college@portland.ac.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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