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Registered charity · Bishop's Stortford

Independent Provider of Special Education Advice

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £1.3m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources

Who leads it

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

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About

What it does
Education/training, Disability
Where
Throughout England
Website
www.ipsea.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Independent Provider of Special Education Advice
Registered
1988

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.3m£1.0m
  • 2024£1.1m£989k
  • 2023£871k£815k
Earlier years
  • 2022£835k£691k
  • 2021£852k£572k
Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE AND ADVANCE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS WITH SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS, PARTICULARLY BY PROVIDING ADVICE, ASSISTANCE, AND SUPPORT FOR PARENTS AND OTHERS TO OBTAIN APPROPRIATE SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL SERVICES, AND TO CONDUCT AND DISSEMINATE RESEARCH, INFORMATION AND TRAINING ON SPECIAL EDUCATION NEEDS.

Board analysis for researchers

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.

9 trustees on the board

2.1y median 2y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
4.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

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.

Disability 9Education/training 9General 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 12Construction 1Professional services 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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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£1.3m 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.

10.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 9.8 in 2021

26 from 18 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
327691
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM & ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 24 NOVEMBER 1987 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 09 OCTOBER 2008 & BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 12 DECEMBER 2009 (CORRECTED BY STATEMENT OF FACT DATED 10 MARCH 2010) as amended on 19 May 2017 as amended on 26 Nov 2018 as amended on 09 Apr 2019 as amended on 02 May 2019 as amended on 01 Dec 2021
Companies House
Company number 02198066 · Active
Contact on the register
01799582030 · admin@ipsea.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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