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Registered charity · Richmond

German School Association Limited

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £15m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Throughout London, Surrey
Website
www.dslondon.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
German School Association Limited
Registered
1974

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£15m£15m
  • 2024£14m£13m
  • 2023£12m£12m
Earlier years
  • 2022£11m£11m
  • 2021£10m£11m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

TO ESTABLISH, MAINTAIN AND CONDUCT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC IN OR IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF LONDON A GERMAN SCHOOL FOR THE GENERAL EDUCATION OF CHILDREN. TO EDUCATE CHILDREN AND ADULTS IN THE LANGUAGE, LITERATURE AND GENERAL CULTURE OF GERMANY AND TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION OF GERMAN SPEAKING PERSONS OF ALL AGES RESIDENT IN GERMANY AND ELSEWHERE IN THE LANGUAGE, LITERATURE AND GENERAL CULTURE OF ENGLAND AND GENERALLY TO PROMOTE THE STUDY OF GERMAN CULTURE IN ENGLAND, AND ENGLISH CULTURE IN GERMANY.

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

2.1y median 0.5y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

3.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

7
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 8Education/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 3Business services 1

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£14.5m latest income · income exceeded spending 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.

8.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 6.6 in 2021

130 from 110 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
325073
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 13/07/1970AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 18/03/1974AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 29/05/2003 as amended on 06 Mar 2019
Companies House
Company number 00984415 · Active
Contact on the register
02089391844 · info@dslondon.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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