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Registered charity · London

The City and Guilds of London Institute

  • 6 trustees
  • Income £175m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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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
Where
South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Eswatini and more
Website
www.cityandguildsfoundation.org (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1965

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£175m£182m
  • 2024£174m£175m
  • 2023£159m£168m
Earlier years
  • 2022£143m£147m
  • 2021£130m£137m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 11% · Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

FOR THE PURPOSES OF ALL SUCH BRANCHES OF SCIENCE AND THE FINE ARTS AND FOR THE ADVANCEMENT, DISSEMINATION, PROPAGATION, PROMOTION, CULTURE AND APPLICATION OF ALL SUCH BRANCHES OF SCIENCE AND THE FINE ARTS AS BENEFIT OR ARE OF USE TO OR MAY BENEFIT OR BE OF USE TO PRODUCTIVE AND TECHNICAL INDUSTRIES ESPECIALLY AND TO COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY GENERALLY OR ANY BRANCH THEREOF.

Grants received

10 grants · £29,500 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

Most recent

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.

6 trustees on the board

5.8y median 7y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

13.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (4)

Portfolio (2)

4
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 6Arts/culture/heritage/science 1Disability 1The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 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.

Professional services 10Business services 9Education 4

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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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£174.8m 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.

3.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 5.2 in 2021

1506 from 1371 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.
11%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
312832
Status
Registered
Governing document
ROYAL CHARTER GRANTED 26/10/1900AS AMENDED BY ORDER IN COUNCIL DATED 19/07/1910AS AMENDED BY ORDER IN COUNCIL DATED 16/03/2011AND STATUTES REVISED 23/12/1980AND STATUTES REVISED 28/10/1993AND STATUTES REVISED 06/10/1994AND STATUTES REVISED 16/03/2011AS AMENDED BY ORDER IN COUNCIL DATED 28 JUN 2022
Contact on the register
02072942548 · info@cityandguildsfoundation.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
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