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Registered charity · Ormskirk

English Speaking Board (International) Limited

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £1.4m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 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
Education/training
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.esbuk.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
English Speaking Board (International) Limited
Registered
1976

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.4m£1.5m
  • 2024£1.5m£1.7m
  • 2023£1.5m£1.7m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.7m£1.7m
  • 2021£1.4m£1.5m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2022: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE WITH EMPHASIS ON ENGLISH AS A SPOKEN LANGUAGE IN SCHOOLS, COLLEGES, BUSINESS ENTERPRISES AND ANY OTHER SITUATION WHERE ENGLISH IS THE MEANS OF COMMUNICATION IRRESPECTIVE OF THE MEDIUM USED, THE IMMEDIATE ENVIRONMENT AND THE BACKGROUND OF THE INDIVIDUALS INVOLVED.

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.

9 trustees on the board

2.7y median 3y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

5.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

7
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 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.

Education 10Other services 1Professional services 1

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.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£1.4m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025
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.

6.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 9.8 in 2021

17 from 26 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.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
272565
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 22 JUL 1976AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 05 APR 1986AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 05 APR 1997AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 14 MAR 2009AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 17 MAR 2012AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 24 JUN 2017AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 18 JUL 2020AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 20 JUL 2024
Companies House
Company number 01269980 · Active
Contact on the register
07736469310 · accounts@esbuk.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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