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Registered charity · London

English- Speaking Union of the Commonwealth

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £2.6m (2025)
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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, Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Albania, Argentina, Armenia and more
Website
www.esu.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
English Speaking Union
Registered
1977

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£2.6m£3.2m
  • 2024£2.8m£3.3m
  • 2023£2.5m£2.0m
Earlier years
  • 2022£2.3m£1.4m
  • 2021£2.1m£2.3m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

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

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE WITHIN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND OTHER COUNTRIES OF THE COMMONWEALTH, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, EUROPE AND ELSEWHERE THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE MUTUAL EDUCATION OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES OF THE WORLD, IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT IN ANY WAY LIMITING THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING) RESPECTING THEIR HERITAGE, TRADITIONS AND ASPIRATIONS, THE EVENTS AND ISSUES OF THE DAY AFFECTING THEM, THEIR INTERRELATIONSHIPS AND THE USE OF ENGLISH AS A SHARED LANGUAGE AND MEANS OF INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION OF KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING: PROVIDED ALWAYS THAT THE FOREGOING AIMS AND OBJECTS SHALL AT ALL TIMES BE PURSUED IN A NON-POLITICAL AND NON-SECTARIAN MANNER.

Grants received

3 grants · £3,560 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

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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.

12 trustees on the board

3.1y median 3y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
5.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (2)

4
company-linked trustees

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

Arts/culture/heritage/science 12Education/training 12Amateur Sport 1General Charitable Purposes 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.

Arts and leisure 2Other services 2Health and social care 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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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£2.6m 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.

9.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 8.3 in 2021

27 from 10 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
273136
Status
Registered
Governing document
ROYAL CHARTER DATED 3RD OCTOBER 1957 AS AMENDED BY ORDERS IN COUNCIL OF THE 10TH SEPTEMBER 1958, 23RD FEBRUARY 1972 AND THE 16TH FEBRUARY 1977
Companies House
Company number RC000177 · Active
Contact on the register
02075291550 · rachel.peers-jones@esu.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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