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Registered charity · London

The National Society (Church of England and Church in Wales) for the Promotion of Education

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £6.4m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

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
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.churchofengland.org/education (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The National Society (Church of England and Church in Wales) for the Promotion of Education
Registered
1966

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£6.4m£7.5m
  • 2024£10.0m£9.4m
  • 2023£5.8m£5.8m
Earlier years
  • 2022£3.4m£4.0m
  • 2021£1.5m£1.8m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 48% · Government grants 12%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE PROMOTION, ENCOURAGEMENT AND SUPPORT OF EDUCATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PRINCIPLES OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND, IN ENGLAND AND IN WALES AND IN ANY OTHER PART OF THE WORLD WHERE THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND OR CHURCHES IN COMMUNION WITH IT MAY BE AT WORK. THE INVESTMENTS AND PROPERTY AND ALL OF THE INCOME OF THE SOCIETY SHALL HENCEFORTH BE APPLICABLE FOR THE GENERAL PURPOSES OF THE SOCIETY AS HEREIN STATED.

Grants received

3 grants · £1,145,375 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.

5.5y median 4.5y
average tenure
15y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

Portfolio (4)

3
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 12General Charitable Purposes 2Religious Activities 2The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 2

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 4Finance 1Property 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.

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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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£10.0m latest income
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.

16.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 120.0 in 2020

55 from 11 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
313070
Status
Registered
Governing document
ROYAL CHARTER AND BYE LAWS DATED 23 OCTOBER 1972, AS AMENDED BY RESOLUTION 13 MARCH 1985 AND ORDER OF COUNCIL OF 19 MARCH 1997.AS AMENDED BY SUPPLEMENTAL CHARTER DATED 06/05/2015
Companies House
Company number RC000373 · Active
Contact on the register
02078981501 · nigel.genders@churchofengland.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
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