Skip to content
Governance Register
Sign inFind yourself
Find yourselfSign in
Search How it works For organisations For professionals

Edition

United Kingdom (current)IrelandUnited StatesNew ZealandCanadaAustraliaScotlandNorthern Ireland

Registered charity · London

Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals

Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals is a registered charity (number 313014) based in London, governed by 13 trustees and chaired by Kate Robinson since 2024. Latest income £3.3m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 18th October 2026.

  • 13 trustees
  • Income £3.3m (2025)
How am I connected?
More
View network map Report an issue

The people who lead this organisation are listed below. Create a free account to save it, get alerts and check how you are connected.

Official record Charity Commission · updated 18th October 2026 · Sources · Free, no card or password

Network

The large node is Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals. Red nodes are organisations, white nodes are people. Dashed links are historical or inferred. Click any node to explore.

Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

Do you help lead this organisation? Set up its network · How it works

Similar charities are matched by type of organisation or purpose and listed by latest income; shared trustees are formal board links. Neither is proof the organisations work together.

About

What it does
Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Economic/community Development/employment
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Isle Of Man and more
Website
www.cilip.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals
Registered
1964

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£3.3m£5.5m
  • 2024£3.3m£4.1m
  • 2023£3.7m£6.5m
Earlier years
  • 2022£3.8m£4.3m
  • 2021£4.0m£3.9m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 16%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC TO PROMOTE EDUCATION AND KNOWLEDGE THROUGH THE ESTABLISHMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF LIBRARIES AND INFORMATION SERVICES AND TO ADVANCE INFORMATION SCIENCE (BEING THE SCIENCE AND PRACTICE OF THE COLLECTION, COLLATION, EVALUATION AND ORGANISED DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION)

Grants received

1 grant · £115,000 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

  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport · £115,000

Most recent

  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport £115,0002024-12-04
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.

13 trustees on the board

2.3y median 2y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

6.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (11)

Portfolio (2)

3
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Arts/culture/heritage/science 13Education/training 13Economic/community Development/employment 11Religious Activities 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.

Arts and leisure 4Education 1Other services 1

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.

🔒 Succession forecast is a Pro feature - the board seats likely to open in the next year and the ideal next trustee. Explore Pro →

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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£3.3m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2023 and 2024
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.

32.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 0.6 in 2020

47 from 41 in 2020
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
313014
Status
Registered
Governing document
ROYAL CHARTER GRANTED 17/02/1898AS AMENDED BY ORDER IN COUNCIL DATED 05/11/2014
Companies House
Company number RC000780 · Active
Contact on the register
02045132831 · laura.chisling@cilip.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 18th October 2026
Labels
Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Report an issue · How we handle data