The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 30th August 2026

The Portal Trust

Registered charity 312425 Registered since 1965

Operates: Throughout London

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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.

10 trustees on the board

11.7y median 14.5y
average tenure
23y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

18.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

Portfolio (4)

5
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 10Religious Activities 2Arts/culture/heritage/science 1Environment/conservation/heritage 1General Charitable Purposes 1Other 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.

Arts and leisure 8Education 5Health and social care 3

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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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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£8.2m 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.

10.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 1.2 in 2021

10 from 8 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.

Related organisations

Connected through a shared trustee

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websiteportaltrust.org
Emailhello@portaltrust.org
Phone02074805884
AddressThe Portal Trust, 31 JEWRY STREET, LONDON, EC3N 2EY

Finances

£8,221,960 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£7,939,405£6,066,977
2022£7,953,929£9,911,157
2023£7,635,741£6,482,085
2024£8,034,899£6,575,247
2025£8,221,960£7,895,563

What it does

What

Education/training

Who

Children/young PeopleOther Charities Or Voluntary Bodies

How

Makes Grants To IndividualsMakes Grants To OrganisationsProvides Buildings/facilities/open Space

Charitable objects

THE ESTABLISHMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF THE SCHOOLS OF THE TRUST KNOWN AS THE ALDGATE SCHOOL AND STEPNEY ALL SAINTS CHURCH OF ENGLAND SECONDARY SCHOOL. ASSISTANCE TO VOLUNTARY CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOLS AND THE LONDON METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY TO APPLY RESIDUE OF THE NET YEARLY INCOME OF THE TRUST IN ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING WAYS:- (A) IN AWARDING TO BENEFICIARIES EXHIBITIONS, SCHOLARSHIPS, BURSARIES OR MAINTENANCE ALLOWANCES TENABLE AT ANY SCHOOL, COLLEGE OF EDUCATION, UNIVERSITY, OR OTHER PLACE OF LEARNING APPROVED BY THE GOVERNORS; (B) IN PROVIDING FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO ANY CHURCH OF ENGLAND VOLUNTARY ORGANISATION IN THE INNER LONDON EDUCATION AREA HAVING CHARITABLE OBJECTS DIRECTED TO EDUCATING OR IMPROVING THE CONDITION OF LIFE OF BENEFICIARIES BY DEVELOPING THEIR PHYSICAL, MENTAL OR MORAL CAPACITIES THROUGH LEISURE-TIME ACTIVITIES. (C) IN AWARDING SCHOLARSHIPS OR MAINTENANCE ALLOWANCE TO ENABLE BENEFICIARIES TO TRAVEL ABROAD TO PURSUE THEIR EDUCATION. (D) IN OTHERWISE PROMOTING THE EDUCATION OF BENEFICIARIES.

Governing document: SCHEME DATED 28 APR 1970AS AMENDED ON 22 OCT 1979AS AMENDED ON 20 MAR 1992AS AMENDED ON 15 JUN 1993AS AMENDED ON 17 DEC 2008AS AMENDED ON 04 NOV 2010AS AMENDED ON 27 JUL 2011AS AMENDED ON 05 DEC 2012AS AMENDED ON 11 DEC 2013AS AMENDED ON 22 APR 2015 as amended on 07 Jan 2021 as amended on 14 Jul 2022 as amended on 11 Jul 2024

Trustees (10)

10trustees
79median age
3aged 70+

Connected charities (14)

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