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Registered charity · Bideford

The Institute for Eclectic Study

  • 3 trustees
  • Income £894 (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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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
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Where
Scotland, Northern Ireland
Registered
1965

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£894£2k
  • 2024£826£281
  • 2023£578£321
Earlier years
  • 2022£604£237
  • 2021£680£2k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

(A) TO PROMOTE AND ENCOURAGE IN ENGLAND AND ELSEWHERE EDUCATION IN AND THE STUDY OF ECLECTIC PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION AND HUMANISM. (B) TO PROMOTE AND ENCOURAGE THE STUDY OF THE OLD TESTAMENT, THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE KORAN WITH A VIEW TO EFFECTING A RECONCILATION BETWEEN THEM AND TO ESTABLISHING A NEW RELIGIOUS FAITH WHICH SHALL PRESERVE ND BE BASED UPON THE SACRED FUNDAMENTALS OF THE THREE SCRIPTURES AFORESAID AND WHICH SHALL BE DESIGNED TO SUPPLEMENT AND NOT TO REPLACE THE ESTABLISHED RELIGIONS. (FOR FURTHER OBJECTS SEE CLAUSE 4 OF TRUST DEED OF 18TH FEBRUARY 1955.)

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.

6y median 6y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure
14.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (2)

Portfolio (1)

2
company-linked trustees

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

The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 3Education/training 1Religious Activities 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 2Other services 1

Gaps to watch

  • Small board - little cover if a trustee leaves

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£894 latest income

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
239131
Status
Registered
Governing document
TRUST DEED DATED 18TH FEBRUARY 1955
Contact on the register
01237 424737
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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