Registered charity · London
The Centre for Lebanese Studies
- 4 trustees
- Income £1.3m (2024)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th 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
- Where
- Throughout London, Oxfordshire, Lebanon
- Website
- www.lebanesestudies.com (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 1988
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2024£1.3m£994k
- 2023£979k£992k
- 2022£915k£1.3m
Earlier years
- 2021£912k£815k
- 2020£801k£685k
Income trend, 2020 to 2024.
Charitable objects
TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC BY PROVIDING AN EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENT TO FURTHER THE STUDY OF AND RESEARCH INTO THE HISTORICAL, ECONOMIC, GEOGRAPHIC, SOCIOLOGICAL AND CULTURAL ISSUES RELATING TO AND EFFECTING THE COUNTRY OF LEBANON AND LEBANESE PEOPLE AND THE DISSEMINATION OF KNOWLEDGE AND THE ENCOURAGEMENT AND PROMOTION OF TEACHIN IN ALL ASPECTS OF THE SAME IN CONNECTION WITH THE FOREGOING AND INTER ALIA, TO CREATE A LIBRARY OF ARCHIVES AND RECORDS RELATING TO LEBANON, TO ENCOURAGE AND ORGANISE SEMINARS AND OTHER EDUCATIONAL EVENTS CONCERNING THE SAME AND TO ISSUE BOOKS PAMPHLETS AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS RELATING TO THE WORK OF THE CENTRE.
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.
4 trustees on the board
- Bassem Ziade Chair since 2018
- Dalia Salaam Rishani since 2018
- Edward Asseily since 2018
- James Wilfrid Watt since 2023
Trustees past 6 years
- Bassem Ziade Chair since 2018
- Dalia Salaam Rishani since 2018
- Edward Asseily since 2018
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (2)
- Bassem Ziade Chair since 2018
- Edward Asseily since 2018
Portfolio (2)
- Dalia Salaam Rishani since 2018
- James Wilfrid Watt since 2023
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
Gaps to watch
- Several long-serving trustees could step down together
- 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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
1.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 4.6 in 2020
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 298375
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- DEED OF DECLARATION OF TRUST DATED 22ND DECEMBER 1987
- Contact on the register
- 01223767539 · info@lebanesestudies.com
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 20th 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.
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