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Town and Country Planning Association

Town and Country Planning Association is a registered charity (number 214348) based in London, governed by 15 trustees. Latest income £2.2m (2024). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 18th October 2026.

Also known as Tcpa (Charity Commission)

  • 15 trustees
  • Income £2.2m (2024)
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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.tcpa.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Town and Country Planning Association
Registered
1965

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£2.2m£1.1m
  • 2023£1.1m£1.1m
  • 2022£1.1m£1.1m
Earlier years
  • 2021£1.0m£999k
  • 2020£971k£1.0m

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Income source mix, 2024: Government contracts 17%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE AND IMPROVE THE ART AND SCIENCE OF TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING, AND TO PROMOTE ENCOURAGE AND ASSIST THE EDUCATION OF PERSONS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION IN THE SAID ART AND SCIENCE AND IN ALL OTHER ARTS AND SCIENCES CONNECTED THEREWITH.

Grants received

9 grants · £1,150,218 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.

15 trustees on the board

6.1y median 6y
average tenure
12y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

13.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (11)

Portfolio (4)

15
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 15Environment/conservation/heritage 15Arts/culture/heritage/science 3The 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.

Other services 19Education 5Professional services 5

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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£2.2m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2023 and 2024
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.

17.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 0.1 in 2020

15 from 15 in 2020
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
214348
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 3RD MARCH 1917 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS OF 13TH APRIL 1965, 25TH JANUARY 1989, 18TH APRIL 1989, 25TH APRIL 1995 AND 24TH APRIL 1997 AS AMENDED 13 JULY 2005AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 09 JAN 2017
Companies House
Company number 00146309 · Active
Contact on the register
02079308903 · tcpa@tcpa.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 18th October 2026
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