The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 6th September 2026

Dover College

Registered charity 307856 Registered since 1964

Operates: Throughout England And Wales

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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.

8 trustees on the board

4.2y median 2y
average tenure
11y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

Portfolio (2)

2
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 8

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 1Education 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£5.8m 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.

3.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 6.9 in 2021

111 from 114 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.

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

Connected through a shared trustee

Also active in the same field

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitewww.dovercollege.org.uk
Emailbursar@dovercollege.org.uk
Phone01304244551
AddressDover College, The Bursary, Effingham Crescent, DOVER, CT17 9RH

Finances

£5,770,715 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£5,213,358£4,785,122
2022£5,318,519£5,094,102
2023£6,175,914£6,478,988
2024£6,879,715£6,952,490
2025£5,770,715£6,292,103

What it does

What

Education/training

Who

Children/young People

How

Provides Services

Charitable objects

THE CONDUCT OF A COLLEGE FOR BOYS AND GIRLS AT DOVER IN THE COUNT OF KENT OR ELSEWHERE IN WHICH THEY MAY RECEIVE A SOUND RELIGIOUS, CLASSICAL, MATHEMATICAL, SCIENTIFIC AND GENERAL EDUCATION AND THE DOING OF ALL SUCH THINGS AS ARE INCIDENTAL OR CONDUCTIVE TO THE ATTAINMENT OF THIS OBJECT

Governing document: ROYAL CHARTER DATED 30 OCTOBER 1924 AS AMENDED BY SUPPLEMENTAL CHARTER DATED 13 APRIL 1976 AS AMENDED BY SCHEME OF THE COMMISSIONERS DATED 14 MARCH 1980

Trustees (8)

8trustees
67median age
1aged 70+

Connected charities (2)

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