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Registered charity · Slough

The National Foundation for Educational Research in England and Wales

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £19m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources

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
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Other Charitable Purposes
Where
Scotland, Northern Ireland, Australia, Kenya and more
Website
www.nfer.ac.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The National Foundation for Educational Research in England and Wales
Registered
1965

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£19m£23m
  • 2024£22m£25m
  • 2023£21m£25m
Earlier years
  • 2022£20m£21m
  • 2021£16m£19m
Charitable objects

TO CONDUCT RESEARCH IN MATTERS AFFECTING EDUCATION AND TO LIAISE ADVISE AND DISSEMINATE INFORMATION THEREON

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.

12 trustees on the board

5y median 3.5y
average tenure
11y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

9.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (2)

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 12General Charitable Purposes 12Other Charitable Purposes 12

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 15Professional services 2Business 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.

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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£19.2m 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.

11.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 21.3 in 2021

373 from 343 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
313392
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 15/03/1967AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 28/11/1967AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 27/11/1968AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 02/12/1969AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 02/12/1971AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 04/12/1974AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 01/12/1976AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 08/12/1977AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 25/10/1978AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 04/12/1984AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 03/12/1985AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 04/12/1987AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 01/12/1989AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 06/12/1991AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 10/12/1992AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 08/12/1993AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 14/12/1994AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 03/12/1995AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 10/12/1996AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 01/11/1997AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 01/10/1998AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 13/10/1999AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 01/10/2000AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 25/10/2001AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 15/10/2002AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 01/12/2004AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 21/09/2006AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 04/12/2007AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 06/12/2012AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 28 NOV 2017 as amended on 28 Nov 2019
Companies House
Company number 00900899 · Active
Contact on the register
01753637168 · enquiries@nfer.ac.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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