The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 6th September 2026

Writers and Scholars Educational Trust

Registered charity 325003 Registered since 1974

Operates: Throughout London, Liverpool City, Albania, Angola, Argentina, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia And Herzegovina

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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.

7 trustees on the board

4.1y median 3y
average tenure
10y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

16.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (4)

Portfolio (3)

6
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Arts/culture/heritage/science 7Education/training 7Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity 7

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Tech and media 5Arts and leisure 3Education 3

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£1.3m 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.

3.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 0.6 in 2021

11 from 8 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.

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

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Also active in the same field

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitewww.indexoncensorship.org
Emailinfo@indexoncensorship.org
Phone02038489820
AddressHaysmacintyre LLP, Thames Exchange, 10 Queen Street Place, LONDON, EC4R 1AG

Finances

£1,250,410 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£811,132£664,568
2022£1,136,618£1,002,113
2023£1,591,114£1,267,088
2024£1,398,963£1,319,743
2025£1,250,410£1,373,871

What it does

What

Education/trainingArts/culture/heritage/scienceHuman Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity

Who

The General Public/mankind

How

Provides Human ResourcesProvides Advocacy/advice/informationSponsors Or Undertakes ResearchActs As An Umbrella Or Resource Body

Charitable objects

SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES INCLUDING THE ADVANCEMENT AD PROMOTION BY TEACHING LECTURING AND PUBLISHING OR DISSEMINATING IN WRITTEN OR SPOKEN FORM OR OTHERWISE AS SHALL BEST ADVANCE AND ENCOURAGE EDUCATION OR OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES BENEFICIAL TO THE COMMUNITY IN CONNECTION WITH THE STUDY OF POLITICAL ECONOMIC SOCIAL AND NATURAL SCIENCES AND THE HUMAN RIGHTS. (SEE DETAILS OF CLAUSE 1 OF SUPPLEMENTAL DEED)

Governing document: DECLARATION OF TRUST DATED 25TH MARCH 1971 AND SUPPLEMENTAL DEEDS DATED 31ST DECEMBER 1973 AND S74D RESOLUTION DATED 8 JULY 2010AS AMENDED BY DEED DATED 21 JUN 2016

Trustees (8)

7trustees
61median age
0aged 70+

Linked company (Companies House)

Wset Trustee LTD · 10188386 · Active

PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital) · incorporated 19/05/2016

1 governing document(s) held from Companies House.

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