The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 12th July 2026

The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators

Registered charity 803725 Registered since 1990

Operates: Throughout England And Wales, Albania, Andorra, Antigua And Barbuda, Australia, Austria, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belgium, Brazil, Croatia, Cyprus

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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.

13 trustees on the board

3.9y median 3y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

4.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (12)

Portfolio (1)

0
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Disability 1Other Charitable Purposes 1

Gaps to watch

  • No commercial or business experience on 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£9.7m latest income
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.

12.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 18.5 in 2020

104 from 77 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.

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

Connected through a shared trustee

Also active in the same field

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitehttp://www.ciarb.org
Emaillegal@ciarb.org
Phone0207 421 7444
AddressChartered Institute of Arbitrators, 12-14 Bloomsbury Square, LONDON, WC1A 2LP

Finances

£9,661,795 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2020£6,865,604£5,813,725
2021£7,318,811£6,714,596
2022£8,217,386£8,363,822
2023£9,027,889£9,015,882
2024£9,661,795£9,803,814

What it does

What

Education/training

Who

Other Defined GroupsThe General Public/mankind

How

Provides Human ResourcesProvides Buildings/facilities/open SpaceProvides ServicesProvides Advocacy/advice/informationSponsors Or Undertakes ResearchActs As An Umbrella Or Resource Body

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE AND FACILITATE WORLDWIDE THE DETERMINATION OF DISPUTES BY ALL FORMS OF PRIVATE DISPUTE RESOLUTION OTHER THAN RESOLUTION BY THE COURT (COLLECTIVELY CALLED “PRIVATE DISPUTE RESOLUTION”).

Governing document: ROYAL CHARTER GRANTED 06 FEB 1979AS AMENDED BY ORDER IN COUNCIL DATED 20 OCT 1982AS AMENDED BY ORDER IN COUNCIL DATED 05 OCT 1983AS AMENDED BY ORDER IN COUNCIL DATED 26 JUN 1991AS AMENDED BY ORDER IN COUNCIL DATED 22 JUN 1999AS AMENDED BY ORDER IN COUNCIL DATED 25 SEP 2006AS AMENDED BY ORDER IN COUNCIL DATED 04 JUL 2012AS AMENDED BY ORDER IN COUNCIL DATED 06 AUG 2013AS AMENDED BY ORDER DATED 15 FEB 2023

Trustees (13)

13trustees
0aged 70+

Connected charities (1)

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