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Registered charity · London

Wine and Spirit Education Trust

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £23m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 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
Throughout England And Wales, Argentina, Australia, Austria and more
Website
www.wsetglobal.com (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Wine and Spirit Education Trust
Registered
1969

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£23m£21m
  • 2024£23m£23m
  • 2023£22m£23m
Earlier years
  • 2022£17m£18m
  • 2021£16m£16m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2022: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE PROMOTION PROVISION AND DEVELOPMENT OF HIGH QUALITY EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN WINES SPIRITS AND OTHER ALCOHOLIC LIQUORS, IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND ELSEWHERE, DIRECTED AT: 1) THOSE WHO ARE ENGAGED IN OR CONNECTED WITH THE WINE AND SPIRIT TRADE (INCLUDING ALL TRADES ANCILLARY OR ALLIED THERETO AND EVERY BRANCH OF SUCH TRADE) OR WHO INTEND TO BE SO ENGAGED OR CONNECTED 2)MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC

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.

8 trustees on the board

3.2y median 3.5y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
6.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

8
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 8

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 8Finance 4Professional services 3

Gaps to watch

  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

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£22.7m 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.

2.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 12.0 in 2021

183 from 146 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
313766
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 17TH OCTOBER 1969 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION ON 29TH MAY 2002. as amended on 05 Mar 2011 as amended on 15 Nov 2018 as amended on 29 Feb 2024
Companies House
Company number 00964179 · Active
Contact on the register
02039120543 · wset@wsetglobal.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
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