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Registered charity · Ipswich

The Ipswich Institute Reading Room and Library

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £560k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Suffolk
Website
www.ipswichinstitute.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1971

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£560k£618k
  • 2024£518k£632k
  • 2023£474k£616k
Earlier years
  • 2022£386k£481k
  • 2021£305k£370k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2021: Government grants 21%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE INHABITANTS OF IPSWICH AND NEIGHBOURHOOD BY THE PROVISON OF A LIBRARY AND READING ROOM AND BY OTHERWISE PROMOTING SCIENCE, LITERATURE, THE FINE ARTS AND ADULT EDUCATION.

Grants received

1 grant · £5,980 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.

Top funders

  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £5,980

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £5,9802023-09-28
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.

10 trustees on the board

3.9y median 3y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

4.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

Portfolio (1)

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 10Education/training 10

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 2

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£560k 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.

18.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 0.0 in 2021

16 from 15 in 2024
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
304772
Status
Registered
Governing document
RULES DATED 22ND JULY 1971 AS AMENDED 18TH JULY 1983, 30TH MARCH 1989, 26TH OCTOBER 1992 AND 21 APRIL 2006
Contact on the register
01473253992 · library@ipswichinstitute.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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