The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 30th August 2026

The London Journal Trust

Registered charity 279299 Registered since 1980

Operates: Throughout England And Wales

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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.

6.8y median 5.5y
average tenure
13y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

5.5y
average years in governance
1
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 8Education/training 8Environment/conservation/heritage 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 1

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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£6k latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

Connected through a shared trustee

Also active in the same field

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Phone02030738065
Addressc/o Professor Matthew Davies, 43 Gordon Square, LONDON, WC1H 0PD

Finances

£6,044 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£3,910£688
2022£4,197£2,100
2023£4,385£3,752
2024£5,340£4,007
2025£6,044£5,832

What it does

What

Education/trainingArts/culture/heritage/science

Who

Other Defined GroupsThe General Public/mankind

How

Provides ServicesSponsors Or Undertakes Research

Charitable objects

(I) THE OBJECTS OF THE CHRITY ARE TO PROMOTE MAINTAIN IMPROVE AND ADVANCE EDUCATION BY ENCOURAGING AND STIMULATING PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING AND APPRECIATION OF THE HISTORY AND CONTEMPORARY DEVELOPMENT OF LONDON AND GENERALLY TO CULTIVATE AND IMPROVE THE STUDY OF LONDON. (II) IN FURTHERANCE OF THE FOREGOING OBJECT BUT NOT OTHERWISE:- TO PUBLISH PRINT AND SELL THE LONDON JOURNAL AND SUCH OTHER JOURNALS BOOKS PERIODICALS MAGAZINES NEWSPAPERS NEWS-SHEETS INFORMATION SHEETS PAMPHLETS AND OTHER LITERARY WORKS AS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT.

Governing document: TRUST DEED DATED 14TH JANUARY 1980

Trustees (8)

8trustees
77median age
1aged 70+

Connected charities (2)

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