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Registered charity · Brighton

Brighton College

  • 15 trustees
  • Income £81m (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources

Who leads it

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
East Sussex, West Sussex, Brighton And Hove
Website
www.brightoncollege.net (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Brighton College
Registered
1963

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£81m£70m
  • 2024£74m£64m
  • 2023£69m£60m
Earlier years
  • 2022£65m£55m
  • 2021£54m£47m
Charitable objects

TO PROVIDE A SOUND RELIGIOUS, CLASSICAL, MATHEMATICAL AND GENERAL EDUCATION, IN CONFORMITY WITH THE DOCTRINES OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND.

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.

5.7y median 6y
average tenure
12y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

14.5y
average years in governance
12
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 15Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity 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.

Education 31Professional services 6Finance 5

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£80.7m 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.

23.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 26.5 in 2021

848 from 559 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
307061
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 18 SEP 1873AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 17 MAR 1990AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 10 DEC 1994AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 27 MAY 2000AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 22 JUN 2002AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 16 APR 2008AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 06 OCT 2010AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 25 NOV 2010AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 30 APR 2012NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 14 MAR 2014AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 29 JUN 2015AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 06 APR 2016AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 19 JUN 2018
Companies House
Company number 00007663 · Active
Contact on the register
01273704200
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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