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Registered charity · Shrewsbury

Field Studies Council

  • 16 trustees
  • Income £18m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
Education/training, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.field-studies-council.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Field Studies Council
Registered
1963

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£18m£19m
  • 2024£19m£19m
  • 2023£18m£17m
Earlier years
  • 2022£17m£16m
  • 2021£12m£14m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

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

Charitable objects

(A) TO PROMOTE THE BENEFIT OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC BY THE PURSUIT AND ENCOURAGEMENT OF FIELD STUDIES IN THE ARTS AND THE SCIENCES WITH WHICH SUCH STUDIES ARE CONSISTENT OR IN THE OPINION OF THE COUNCIL CAN BE ADVANTAGEOUSLY OR USEFULLY CARRIED OUT. (B) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN EVERY KIND OF FIELD WORK IN ANY SUCH ARTS AND SCIENCES AND TO ESTABLISH, EQUIP AND MAINTAIN IN ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, WALES, NORTHERN IRELAND OR ELSEWHERE A CENTRE OR CENTRES FOR FIELD STUDIES, RESEARCH, MEETINGS AND LECTURES, INSTRUCTION OR BY ANY OTHER CHARITABLE MEANS AS THE COUNCIL DETERMINE. (C) TO PROMOTE THE BENEFIT OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC BY THE PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION OF THE ENVIRONMENT INCLUDING EDUCATING THE PUBLIC IN THE BENEFITS TO THE ENVIRONMENT OF SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES.

Grants received

25 grants · £4,494,899 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

  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £2,303,422 (12 grants)
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £2,023,900 (7 grants)
  • City Bridge Trust · £88,500
  • SHAREGIFT · £55,000 (2 grants)
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · £14,975

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.

16 trustees on the board

3.8y median 2y
average tenure
13y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

12.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (14)

Portfolio (2)

15
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 16Environment/conservation/heritage 16Amateur Sport 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.

Education 19Professional services 8Property 8

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£18.7m latest income · income exceeded spending 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.

0.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 13.9 in 2020

297 from 373 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
313364
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 13/06/1946AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 21/10/1947AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 26/06/1952AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 08/12/1955AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 21/02/1969AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 12/05/1979AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 13/10/1999AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 08/10/2003AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 25/09/2008AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 07/07/2012AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 05 SEP 2017 as amended on 02 Jul 2020
Companies House
Company number 00412621 · Active
Contact on the register
01743852100 · fsc.headoffice@field-studies-council.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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