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Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £993k (2024)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th 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, Religious Activities
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Belgium, Germany, Ireland and more
Website
www.woodbrooke.org.uk/woodbrooke (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1963

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£993k£1.0m
  • 2023£1.6m£1.8m
  • 2022£1.3m£1.6m
Earlier years
  • 2021£1.5m£1.6m
  • 2020£1.5m£1.6m

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Income source mix, 2020: Government grants 20%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

COLLEGE OR HALL OF RESIDENCE OR INSTITUTION PROVIDING INSTRUCTION IN THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION AND TRAINING IN CHRISTIAN WORK FOR MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS AND OTHER PERSONS AND ALSO PROVIDING INSTRUCTION ON SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC QUESTIONS AND IN CLASSICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL AND OTHER BRANCHES OF LEARNING AND SPIRITUAL AND INTELLECTUAL CULTURE.

Grants received

3 grants · £1,168,696 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.

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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.

2.3y median 2y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
3.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

Portfolio (3)

1
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 11Religious Activities 11Arts/culture/heritage/science 1General Charitable Purposes 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 1Education 1Hospitality 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£993k 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.

9.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 5.9 in 2020

17 from 53 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
313816
Status
Registered
Governing document
INDENTURE DATED 8TH OCTOBER 1903. EFFECTED BY SCHEME OF 17TH MARCH 1998.
Contact on the register
01218241690 · kevin.smith@woodbrooke.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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