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Registered charity · Croydon

The Whitgift Foundation

  • 14 trustees
  • Income £77m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
Education/training, Accommodation/housing, Other Charitable Purposes
Where
Croydon, Kent, Surrey
Website
www.johnwhitgiftfoundation.org (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1965

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£77m£92m
  • 2024£78m£90m
  • 2023£79m£83m
Earlier years
  • 2022£65m£76m
  • 2021£63m£72m
Charitable objects

(1) THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT:(A) THE PROVISION OF HOMES, SERVICES OR FACILITIES FOR BENEFICIARIES INCLUDING THE PROVISION OF INFORMATION, ADVICE, GUIDANCE, ASSISTANCE AND AT HOME CARE SERVICES;(B) THE PROVISION, MAINTENANCE, SUPPORT AND CONDUCT OF DAY, OR DAY AND BOARDING, SCHOOLS IN THE ANCIENT PARISH OF CROYDON AND IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF CROYDON AT WHICH IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THE EDUCATION ACTS, RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION CONSISTENT WITH THE DOCTRINES OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND IS GIVEN;(C) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF PUPILS OR FORMER PUPILS OF THE SCHOOLS OF THE CHARITY WHO ARE IN FINANCIAL NEED, THROUGH THE PROVISION OF SCHOLARSHIPS, EXHIBITIONS, BURSARIES, MAINTENANCE ALLOWANCES OR GRANTS TENABLE AT ANY SCHOOL, UNIVERSITY, COLLEGE OF EDUCATION, OR OTHER INSTITUTION OF FURTHER (INCLUDING PROFESSIONAL AND TECHNICAL) EDUCATION APPROVED FOR THE PURPOSE BY THE TRUSTEE.

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.

14 trustees on the board

4.4y median 3.5y
average tenure
11y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (12)

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 14Other Charitable Purposes 13Accommodation/housing 12General Charitable Purposes 2The 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 2Education 2Finance 2

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£77.1m 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.

25.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 38.2 in 2021

713 from 877 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
312612
Status
Registered
Governing document
WHITGIFT CHARITIES ACT 1969 AS VARIED OR AMENDED BY A SCHEME DATED 6 JUNE 2011 AND A RESOLUTION DATED 8 DECEMBER 2016 AND RESOLUTIO DATED 30 MARCH 2017
Contact on the register
02086808499 · enquiries@johnwhitgiftfoundation.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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