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Registered charity · Cambridge

The Bell Educational Trust Limited

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £1.6m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
Education/training
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland
Website
www.bell-foundation.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Bell Educational Trust Limited (the)
Registered
1973

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.6m£2.7m
  • 2024£16m£17m
  • 2023£15m£15m
Earlier years
  • 2022£10m£11m
  • 2021£5.7m£8.3m
Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE TO PROMOTE AND PROVIDE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY ANY MEANS THAT THE TRUSTEES CONSIDER APPROPRIATE AND IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION)BY: (A) THE CARRYING OUT AND DISSEMINATION OF RESEARCH INTO THE TEACHING AND LEARNING OF LANGUAGES AND THE USE OF LANGUAGE IN EDUCATION MORE GENERALLY (B)THE TRAINING AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF LANGUAGE TEACHERS (C)THE PROVISION OF GRANTS TO ORGANISITIONS AND INDIVIDUALS TO FURTHER LANGUAGE EDUCATION;AND (SAVE FOR PURPOSES INCIDENTAL AND ANCILLARY TO THESE OBJECTS) NO OTHER PURPOSES.

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.

10 trustees on the board

4y median 4y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

12.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (3)

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 10The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 2General Charitable Purposes 1The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 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.

Construction 122Education 19Property 11

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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£15.6m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2023 and 2024
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.

31.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 55.5 in 2020

203 from 152 in 2020
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
311585
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES AS REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 04/11/2011
Companies House
Company number 01048465 · Active
Contact on the register
01223275588 · info@bell-foundation.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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