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Forest School, London

Forest School, London is a registered charity (number 312677) based in London, governed by 9 trustees. Latest income £39m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 25th October 2026.

Also known as Forest School (Charity Commission)

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £39m (2025)
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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Education/training, Amateur Sport
Where
Waltham Forest
Website
www.forest.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Forest School, London
Registered
1964

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£39m£37m
  • 2024£34m£34m
  • 2023£32m£31m
Earlier years
  • 2022£28m£28m
  • 2021£26m£25m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE AND PROVIDE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND IN CONNECTION THEREWITH TO ESTABLISH AND PROVIDE, CONDUCT, CARRY ON, ACQUIRE AND DEVELOP IN THE UNITED KINGDOM ANY BOARDING OR DAY SCHOOL OR SCHOOLS FOR THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN.

Board analysis

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.

9 trustees on the board

6.2y median 4y
average tenure
13y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

13.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (2)

8
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 9Amateur Sport 8Arts/culture/heritage/science 1General Charitable Purposes 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.

Education 10Tech and media 6Arts and leisure 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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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£39.0m 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.

6.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 7.1 in 2021

267 from 233 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
312677
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 6 FEBRUARY 1947 AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS DATED 2 JULY 1964 AND 17 OCTOBER 1986 as amended on 04 Jan 2022 as amended on 30 Dec 2021
Companies House
Company number 00429150 · Active
Contact on the register
02085201744 · info@forest.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 25th October 2026
Labels
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