Skip to content
Governance Register
Sign inFind yourself
Find yourselfSign in
Search How it works For organisations For professionals

Edition

United Kingdom (current)IrelandUnited StatesNew ZealandCanadaAustraliaScotlandNorthern Ireland

Registered charity · London

Design Council

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £3.7m (2025)
How am I connected?
More
View network map Report an issue

Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources

Who leads it

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

Do you help lead this organisation? Set up its network · How it works

About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability and 8 more
Where
Throughout England
Website
www.designcouncil.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1976

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£3.7m£3.5m
  • 2024£3.6m£3.9m
  • 2023£4.3m£4.2m
Earlier years
  • 2022£4.5m£4.8m
  • 2021£3.6m£3.6m
Charitable objects

3.1 THE ADVANCEMENT OF BRITISH INDUSTRY AND PUBLIC SERVICES BY THE IMPROVEMENT OF DESIGN IN THEIR PRODUCTS AND SERVICES; 3.2 THE PROTECTION, ENHANCEMENT, IMPROVEMENT AND REVITALISATION OF THE NATURAL AND BUILT ENVIRONMENT (INCLUDING ARCHITECTURE), AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN SUCH SUBJECTS AND IN SUBJECTS RELATING TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND SUSTAINABLE LIVING, AND TO PROMOTE STUDY AND RESEARCH IN SUCH SUBJECTS PROVIDED THAT THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH STUDY ARE DISSEMINATED TO THE PUBLIC AT LARGE; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT MEANS “DEVELOPMENT WHICH MEETS THE NEEDS OF THE PRESENT WITHOUT COMPROMISING THE ABILITY OF FUTURE GENERATIONS TO MEET THEIR OWN NEEDS”.

Board analysis for researchers

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

2.3y median 1y
average tenure
4y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
3.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

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 9General Charitable Purposes 9The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 9

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Arts and leisure 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.

🔒 Succession forecast is a Pro feature - the board seats likely to open in the next year and the ideal next trustee. Explore Pro →

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£3.7m 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.

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

34 from 38 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.
76%
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
272099
Status
Registered
Governing document
ROYAL CHARTER 19TH MAY 1976AS AMENDED ON 01 APR 2011
Contact on the register
02074205200 · info@designcouncil.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Report an issue · How we handle data