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Registered charity · London

International House Trust Limited

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £18m (2024)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th 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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About

What it does
Education/training
Where
Camden, Cambridgeshire
Website
www.ihlondon.com (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
International House Trust Limited
Registered
1976

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£18m£18m
  • 2023£17m£16m
  • 2022£13m£13m
Earlier years
  • 2021£8.9m£10m
  • 2020£9.1m£11m

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Income source mix, 2021: Government grants 5%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE FOUNDATION'S OBJECTS ARE THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PROMOTING AND PROVIDING FOR:3.1 THE TEACHING AND TESTING OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES, CULTURAL AWARENESS AND ASSOCIATED SKILLS, INCLUDING THE TEACHING OF ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE AND TEACHING ABOUT ENGLISH CULTURE, TO MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN OF ANY NATIONALITY;3.2 THE TRAINING OF MEN AND WOMEN OF ANY NATIONALITY IN THE TEACHING OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING THE TEACHING OF ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE; AND3.3 THE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF LANGUAGE TEACHERS SO AS TO RAISE LANGUAGE TEACHING STANDARDS WORLDWIDE.

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.

10 trustees on the board

3.2y median 4y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

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 10

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 13Finance 2Other services 2

Gaps to watch

  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£17.6m 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.

5.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 9.0 in 2020

445 from 399 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
270860
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 2ND JANUARY 1976 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION ON 25 NOVEMBER 2002, 23 SEPTEMBER 2003, 25 NOVEMBER 2003, 24 JUNE 2005, 8 SEPTEMBER 2007 AND 28 SEPTEMBER 2009. as amended on 13 Jun 2024
Companies House
Company number 01239120 · Active
Contact on the register
020 7611 2400 · finance@ihlondon.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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