Registered charity · Cambridge
The Open School Trust
- 7 trustees
- Income £1.6m (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources
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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
- Where
- Cambridgeshire
- Website
- www.nec.ac.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- The Open School Trust
- Registered
- 1989
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£1.6m£1.3m
- 2024£1.3m£1.2m
- 2023£1.1m£1.2m
Earlier years
- 2022£1.3m£1.2m
- 2021£1.5m£1.3m
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 6%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
TO PROMOTE EDUCATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING) AMONG CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE OF SCHOOL AGE AND TEACHERS, PARENTS AND OTHERS INVOLVED IN THEIR 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.
7 trustees on the board
- Colin Woolliscroft since 2018
- Ceri Lianne Rose since 2023
- Dr Vanessa Pittard since 2018
- James David Tweed since 2025
- Martin James Weller Professor since 2024
- ROS Morpeth since 2011
- Tim Lewis Bennett-Hart since 2025
Trustees past 6 years
- Colin Woolliscroft since 2018
- Dr Vanessa Pittard since 2018
- ROS Morpeth since 2011
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (6)
- Colin Woolliscroft since 2018
- Ceri Lianne Rose since 2023
- Dr Vanessa Pittard since 2018
- Martin James Weller Professor since 2024
- ROS Morpeth since 2011
- Tim Lewis Bennett-Hart since 2025
Portfolio (1)
- James David Tweed since 2025
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
10.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 7.0 in 2021
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 328414
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 01 NOV 1989AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 16 MAY 2023 as amended on 16 May 2023
- Companies House
- Company number 02438525 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 01223400200 · info@nec.ac.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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