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Registered charity · East Sussex

The Institute of Development Studies

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £23m (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, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity
Where
Brighton And Hove
Website
www.ids.ac.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Institute of Development Studies
Registered
1966

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£23m£27m
  • 2024£26m£30m
  • 2023£32m£32m
Earlier years
  • 2022£29m£30m
  • 2021£31m£28m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 12% · Government grants 13%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE INSTITUTE IS ESTABLISHED ARE THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND LEARNING IN DEVELOPMENT AND PROMOTING BEST PRACTICE IN DEVELOPMENT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY:-(A) THE CONDUCT, PUBLICATION AND DISSEMINATION OF RESEARCH; (B) TEACHING AND TRAINING;(C) ASSISTING GOVERNMENTS AND OTHER POLICY MAKERS AND PRACTITIONERS BY PROVIDING EDUCATION, KNOWLEDGE, RESOURCES AND INFORMATION TO FACILITATE THE GROWTH OF LOCAL, NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CAPACITY IN DEVELOPMENT;"DEVELOPMENT" MEANS SOCIAL, ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL CHANGE WHICH HELPS TO ERADICATE POVERTY AND SOCIAL INJUSTICE.

Grants received

59 grants · £23,277,627 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

  • Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office · £19,192,615 (23 grants)
  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology · £3,291,167 (29 grants)
  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy · £348,275 (3 grants)
  • Lankelly Chase Foundation · £246,500 (2 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £199,070 (2 grants)

Most recent

  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology £68,3082024-11-28
  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology £61,0322024-09-11
  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology £76,8822024-08-26
  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology £110,1472024-05-16
  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology £28,4862024-04-03
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.

11 trustees on the board

3.8y median 5y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

Portfolio (2)

11
company-linked trustees

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

Education/training 11The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 11Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity 10The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 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.

Professional services 16Education 2Health and social care 2

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£23.4m 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.

2.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months

250 from 255 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.
24%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
306371
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION, INCORPORATED 20TH APRIL, 1966 AS AMENDED 23RD DECEMBER 1991,15TH JUNE 2000 & 9 JUNE 2005.AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 20 OCT 2016AS REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 21 NOV 2016 as amended on 04 Dec 2019 as amended on 21 Sep 2020
Companies House
Company number 00877338 · Active
Contact on the register
01273606261 · ids@ids.ac.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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