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Registered charity · Lungarno Guicciardini

The British Institute of Florence

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £1.6m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 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, Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Italy
Website
www.britishinstitute.it (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1984

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.6m£1.6m
  • 2024£1.5m£1.5m
  • 2023£1.4m£1.6m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.5m£1.4m
  • 2021£1.5m£1.3m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

(A) THE PROMOTION OF THE STUDY IN ITALY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND OF BRITISH LITERATURE, ART, HISTORY, PHILOSOPHY AND INSTITUTIONS. (B) THE PROMOTION OF THE STUDY OF THE ITALIAN LANGUAGE AND OF ITALIAN LITERATURE, ART, HISTORY, PHILOSOPHY AND INSTITUTIONS, AND OF A GREATER KNOWLEDGE AND APPRECIATION OF ITALIAN CULTURE; (C) THE PROMOTION OF A GOOD UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN THE CITIZENS OF ITALY AND THOSE STUDENTS, WHETHER OF BRITISH OR OTHER NATIONALITY, AS MAY BE PURSUING STUDIES AS DESCRIBED IN (A) AND (B) OF THIS ARTICLE; (D) TO SUPPORT THE OTHER OBJECTS OF THE INSTITUTE AS HEREIN SET OUT BY, INTER ALIA, MAINTAINING A LIBRARY IN FLORENCE FROM SUCH FUNDS AS MAY BE AUTHORISED FOR THIS PURPOSE BY THE GOVERNING BODY.

Grants received

2 grants · £55,000 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.

9 trustees on the board

3y median 2y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

3.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

2
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 9Education/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.

Agriculture 1Arts and leisure 1Health and social care 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£1.6m latest income · income exceeded spending 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.

1.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 3.4 in 2021

25 from 29 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
290647
Status
Registered
Governing document
ROYAL CHARTER OF 14 MAY 1923 AS AMENDED 3 JUNE 1958, 14 DECEMBER 1994 AND 7 JUNE 2006.
Contact on the register
0039055267781 · director@britishinstitute.it
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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