The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 6th September 2026
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Know which boards open next year.

53,186 UK charity boards are past renewal age right now. We show you which ones, who is on them, and the shortest path to someone who knows the chair. Built from Companies House and the Charity Commission - nothing self-declared.

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The renewal cliff, counted
53,186
Charities flagged for a renewal cliff, right nowiRenewal cliffCharities where board_dna.gap_codes includes RENEWAL_CLIFF: a large share of the CURRENT board has served past the tenure point the build treats as a renewal signal, computed from the dated Charity Commission trustee register. Counts 53,186 of 167,201 charities with enough dated trustee history to compute a board profile, out of 170,397 currently registered charities - the remainder are too sparsely dated to score, and are absent from this figure, never counted as clear. Full method on the method page.

The shortest route to a warm introduction starts with knowing whose board opens next.

Currently registered charities170,397
With a computable board profile iBoard profile coverage167,201 of 170,397 registered charities (98%) have enough dated trustee history to compute tenure, chair and renewal-signal figures. The rest are too sparsely dated to score - absent from every board-profile figure on this site, never counted as clear.167,201
People on the company record9,492,252
Companies on the register5,689,368

One filing, then one path

Take a board heading for a renewal cliff: a majority of trustees past six years, read straight off the dated Charity Commission record, not guessed. The path finder then reads the whole governance graph - boards shared now and in the past, across companies, charities and schools - and returns the shortest route from someone you already know to someone who can make the introduction. Renewal signal to warm route, in one workflow, on one register. Walk it on the demo, where a fictional board, Grangewood Almshouse Trust, shows it end to end ->

Longlists from the filed record

Chair experience, sector, tenure, region, whether this is their first board or their fifth, whether they also govern a charity - the filters run on facts a person filed, not phrases they typed into a profile. A morning of longlisting becomes minutes, and every line of it is defensible in front of a client.

Built on what is filed, not what is claimed

Profiles here are compiled from Companies House and the Charity Commission - appointment by appointment, with dates. Where we resolve two records into one person we say so and show the method; every derived figure on the site explains what it counts and what it excludes. Read the method ->

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Free, not gated

Ask the incumbent relationship-mapping and prospect-research tools what a seat costs and the answer is a form, a call and a follow-up email. We do not have one - full access is free. Create an account -> · See how we compare to BoardEx, Beauhurst and LinkedIn Recruiter ->

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Walk it yourself

299 fictional organisations, 1,751 fictional people, every feature live - constellations, warm paths, board renewal signals, ownership, the recruiter dashboard. No account, no card, nothing to cancel. If it does not make your next search faster, close the tab.

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Built to be checked

Every profile traces to a filing at Companies House or the Charity Commission, appointment by appointment, with dates - deterministic, no AI-generated records, no self-declared data, nothing from a scraped profile. Where two records resolve to one person we say so and show the basis for the match.

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What we do not claim

No UK public register publishes company turnover, so we do not show one - only the filing-size category (FULL, GROUP, MEDIUM, SMALL, MICRO or DORMANT) a company's own accounts fall into. Companies House publishes no occupation field either, so we have no CEO or executive layer - an executive appears here only where they also hold a directorship. Contact emails exist for 12% of charities, not all of them, and we say so on every filter that uses them. We would rather tell you what is missing than guess at it.

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Compiled from Companies House and the Charity Commission for England and Wales. Derived figures explain their method on the page. Found an error in a record? Tell us - corrections are part of the product.