The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 30th August 2026

The Charitable and Educational Trust of the Company of Scientific Instrument Makers

Registered charity 221332 Registered since 1963

Operates: City Of London, Southwark, Scotland

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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.

3.8y median 2.5y
average tenure
13y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

4.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

Portfolio (2)

1
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 8General Charitable Purposes 8The 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 1

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£3.4m 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.

120.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months

1
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.

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

Connected through a shared trustee

Also active in the same field

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitehttps://www.wcsim.co.uk/
Phone02074074832
Address9 MONTAGUE CLOSE, LONDON, SE1 9DD

Finances

£156,278 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£93,820£94,396
2022£154,955£158,153
2023£129,055£143,226
2024£3,436,957£172,590
2025£156,278£505,423

What it does

What

General Charitable PurposesEducation/training

Who

Children/young PeopleOther Defined Groups

How

Makes Grants To IndividualsMakes Grants To Organisations

Charitable objects

THE RELIEF OF ANY NECESSITOUS LIVERYMEN OR FREEMEN OF THE COMPANY OR THEIR WIDOWS OR DEPENDANTS, OR THE EDUCATION OF THEIR NECESSITOUS CHILDREN, OR THE EDUCATION OF PERSONS CONNECTED WITH THE INDUSTRY OF MAKING SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS OR GRANTING SCHOLARSHIPS OR ANY OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSE.

Governing document: TRUST DEED DATED 15 SEPTEMBER 1959, AS AMENDED BY SCHEME OF THE CHARITY COMMISSIONERS DATED 2 JUNE 1992, ORDER DATED 6 MAY 2003 AND DEED DATED 8 JULY 2003AS AMENDED BY DEED DATED 27 JUL 2021

Trustees (8)

8trustees
71median age
1aged 70+

Connected charities (2)

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