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Registered charity · Chipping Norton

The Ditchley Foundation

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £6.4m (2025)
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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
Oxfordshire, Canada, United States
Website
www.ditchley.com (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Ditchley Foundation
Registered
1962

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£6.4m£4.6m
  • 2024£77m£4.5m
  • 2023£1.6m£3.6m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.3m£3.1m
  • 2021£1.2m£2.9m
Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE, CARRY OUT OR ADVANCE ANY CHARITABLE OBJECTS, AND IN PARTICULAR ANY BRANCHES OR ASPECTS OF EDUCATION LIKELY TO BE FOR THE COMMON BENEFIT OF BRITISH SUBJECTS ON ONE HAND AND CITIZENS IN THE UNITED STATES ON THE OTHER, MAINTENANCE OF A CENTRE FOR STUDY, AND THE PROMOTION OF JOINT STUDY OF ANY PROBLEMS AND QUESTIONS AFFECTING THE UNITED STATES AND THE UNITED KINGDOM. (FOR FURTHER DETAILS SEE GOVERNING INSTRUMENT).

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.

11 trustees on the board

4.5y median 4y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure
11.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (1)

10
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 11Armed Forces/emergency Service Efficiency 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.

Finance 17Education 11Utilities 9

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£6.4m 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.

120.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 110.0 in 2021

60 from 29 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
309657
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 24TH FEBRUARY 1958 AS AMENDED 29TH NOVEMBER 1966
Companies House
Company number 00599389 · Active
Contact on the register
01608677346 · info@ditchley.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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