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Registered charity · London

British Accreditation Council for Independent Further and Higher Education

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £782k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
Education/training
Where
City Of London
Website
www.the-bac.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
British Accreditation Council for Independent Further and Higher Education
Registered
1984

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£782k£836k
  • 2024£745k£797k
  • 2023£736k£764k
Earlier years
  • 2022£620k£705k
  • 2021£610k£640k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

BAC'S OBJECTS ARE TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY: PROVIDING A SYSTEM OF ACCREDITATION FOR EDUCATIONAL AND TRAINING INSTITUTIONS IN ORDER TO PROMOTE PUBLIC CONFIDENCE IN SUCH INSTITUTIONS AND THEIR PROGRAMMES OF STUDY; AND ASSISTING IN THE IMPROVEMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF THE STANDARDS OF ACCREDITED INSTITUTIONS THROUGH THE OFFER OF ADVISORY AND CONSULTANCY SERVICES PRINCIPALLY IN THE FIELD OF FURTHER AND HIGHER EDUCATION.

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.

11 trustees on the board

4.2y median 5y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

9.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (1)

9
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 11General Charitable Purposes 1The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 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.

Education 17Health and social care 3Business services 2

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£782k latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

14.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 23.3 in 2021

9 from 9 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
326652
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 29/06/1984AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 16/11/2000AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 02/05/2002AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 29/04/2010AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 04/12/2012AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 30 OCT 2017 as amended on 02 Apr 2018
Companies House
Company number 01828990 · Active
Contact on the register
03003301400 · finance@the-bac.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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