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Registered charity · London

The Author's Foundation

  • 5 trustees
  • Income £195k (2024)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

Also 1 organisation acting as trustee: The Society of Authors.

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.societyofauthors.org (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1984

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£195k£436k
  • 2023£211k£435k
  • 2022£212k£430k
Earlier years
  • 2021£184k£281k
  • 2020£167k£435k

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Charitable objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC BY (1) MAKING GRANTS OR AWARDS OUT OF INCOME TO AUTHORS OF OUTSTANDING LITERARY MERIT TO ENABLE THEM TO CREATE AND/OR PROCURE PUBLICATION OF LITERARY WORKS OF EDUCATIONAL VALUE OF ARTISTIC MERIT, AND (2) PROMOTING THE PUBLICATION AND DISSEMINATION OF LITERARY WORKS OF EDUCATIONAL VALUE OR ARTISTIC MERIT.

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.

4 trustees on the board

2.5y median 2.5y
average tenure
4y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

  • The Society of Authors since 1984
6.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (3)

Portfolio (1)

1
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 4Environment/conservation/heritage 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 2

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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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£195k latest income · spending exceeded income in 2023 and 2024

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
326605
Status
Registered
Governing document
TRUST DEED DATED 23 FEBRUARY 1984
Contact on the register
02038802230 · grants@societyofauthors.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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