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Registered charity · London

British Exploring Society

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £818k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources

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

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About

What it does
Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage and 1 more
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland
Website
britishexploring.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
British Exploring Society
Registered
1989

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£818k£896k
  • 2024£904k£1.2m
  • 2023£1.6m£1.8m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.6m£1.6m
  • 2021£1.3m£1.2m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG PEOPLE BY PROVIDING INSPIRATIONAL, CHALLENGING, SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITIONS TO REMOTE, WILD ENVIRONMENTS AND SO PROMOTE THE DEVELOPMENT OF THEIR CONFIDENCE, TEAMWORK, LEADERSHIP AND SPIRIT OF ADVENTURE AND EXPLORATION

Grants received

6 grants · £245,000 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

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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

2.8y median 2y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

9.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

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 9Education/training 9The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 9

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 8Professional services 5Finance 3

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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£904k latest income · spending exceeded income in 2023 and 2024
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.

1.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 5.0 in 2020

19 from 17 in 2020
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
802196
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 08/08/1989AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 01/02/2004AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 27/01/2007AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 26/01/2008AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 24/08/2011AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 15 FEB 2017
Companies House
Company number 02411786 · Active
Contact on the register
0204 534 0777 · info@britishexploring.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
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