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Registered charity · York

SIR Ernest Cassel Educational Trust

SIR Ernest Cassel Educational Trust is a registered charity (number 313820) based in York, governed by 6 trustees and chaired by Professor Francis Christopher Rowland Robinson CBE. Latest income £14k (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 18th October 2026.

Also known as The Cassel Trust (Charity Commission)

  • 6 trustees
  • Income £14k (2025)
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About

What it does
Education/training
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.casseltrust.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1966

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£14k£107k
  • 2024£25k£326k
  • 2023£12k£49k
Earlier years
  • 2022£3k£86k
  • 2021£3k£71k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

TO PROVIDE:- 1. A SUM NOT EXCEEDING ú150,000 TOWARDS THE ESTABLISHMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF A FACULTY OF COMMERCE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON. 2. A SUM NOT EXCEEDING ú50,000 FOR THE SUPPORT OR ADVANCEMENT AS THE TRUSTEES MAY THINK FIT OF THE WORKERS EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION OR ANY OTHER BODY CONCERNED WITH ADULT EDUCATION OR THE PROMOTION, SUPPORT ADVANCEMENT OR MAINTENANCE OF ANY EDUCATIONAL PROJECT OR UNDERTAKING FOR THE BENEFIT OF ADULTS CARRIED ON OR TO BE CARRIED ON OR RECOMMENDED OR APPROVED BY SUCH ASSOCIATION OR BODY. 3. A SUM NOT EXCEEDING ú20,000 FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF STUDENTSHIPS OR SCHOLARSHIPS FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT AND ASSISTANCE OF THE GENERAL TECHNICAL OR COMMERCIAL EDUCATION OF WORKMEN (PARTICULARY THOSE WHO HAVE FOLLOWED PART-TIME COURSES OF EDUCATION AFTER THE AGE OF 16) OR SONS OR DAUGHTERS OF WORKMAN TO BE CARRIED ON IN THE UK OR ELSEWHERE. 4. A SUM NOT EXCEEDING ú100,000 FOR THE PROMOTION ENCOURAGEMENT AND ASSISTANCE OF THE STUDY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES BY THE ESTABLISHMENT OF PROFESSORSHIPS OR LECTURESHIPS AND THE FOUNDATION OF SCHOLARSHIPS OR BURSARIES IN CONNECTION THEREWITH. 5. A SUM NOT EXCEEDING ú100,000 FOR THE HIGHER EDUCATION OF WOMEN BY THE ENDOWMENT OR ASSISTANCE OF COLLEGES FOR WOMEN. 6. A SUM OF ú80,000 FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES.

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.

11y median 11y
average tenure
13y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

9.7y
average years in governance
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 6Arts/culture/heritage/science 2Economic/community Development/employment 1Environment/conservation/heritage 1General Charitable Purposes 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.

Health and social care 3Other services 2Arts and leisure 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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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£14k latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
313820
Status
Registered
Governing document
TRUST DEED DATED 11 FEBRUARY 1919 AS VARIED OR AFFECTED BY AN ORDER OF THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE (CHANCERY DIVISION) OF 9 FEBRUARY 1959 AND SCHEME OF 13 FEBRUARY 1992
Contact on the register
01904 619740 · casseltrust@btinternet.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 18th October 2026
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