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Registered charity · London

University College School

  • 15 trustees
  • Income £36m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training
Where
Camden
Website
www.ucs.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1963

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£36m£33m
  • 2024£34m£31m
  • 2023£31m£31m
Earlier years
  • 2022£36m£28m
  • 2021£27m£26m
Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION OF BOYS OR, AT THE GOVERNORS' DISCRETION, OF BOYS AND GIRLS, BY THE PROVISION OF A SCHOOL OR SCHOOLS. IN THE SELECTION OF PUPILS NO RELIGIOUS TEST SHALL BE ADOPTED OR IMPOSED AND NO APPLICANT FOR A SCHOOL APPOINTMENT SHALL BE AT ANY DISADVANTAGE ON THE GROUND OR RELIGIOUS OPINION.

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.

15 trustees on the board

2.5y median 3y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
13.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

Portfolio (7)

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 15General Charitable Purposes 15Religious Activities 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.

Property 14Education 12Tech and media 12

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£36.3m 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.

7.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 1.9 in 2021

373 from 396 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
312748
Status
Registered
Governing document
SCHEME DATED 09 FEB 2005AS AMENDED BY RESOLUTION DATED 10 OCT 2013AS AMENDED BY RESOLUTION DATED 22 OCT 2018AS AMENDED BY RESOLUTION DATED 15 OCT 2020 as amended on 15 Oct 2020
Contact on the register
02074332140 · seniorschool@ucs.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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