The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 12th July 2026

For recruiters and search firms

Know which boards open next year.

The Governance Register maps who governs Britain - every company director, charity trustee and school governor, resolved to one person, from the filed public record. Not the self-authored CV.

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9,492,252
people on the company record
5,734,780
companies
395,417
registered charities
26,106
schools

Boards that are about to open

Every board on the register carries its composition: tenures, chairs past six years, first-time and portfolio members, who left in the last twelve months. A board where five of eight trustees are past six years is a board that will be recruiting - and the register can see it before anyone is asked to fill the seats. No other product sells this signal at any price.

The warm route to any candidate

Names are easy; access is the job. The path finder reads the whole governance graph - boardrooms shared now and in the past, across companies, charities and schools - and answers the question a researcher actually asks: who do we already know who can make this introduction. The incumbent tools sell relationship mapping from $25,000 a year, on corporate boards only. Ours crosses registers theirs cannot see.

Longlists from the filed record

Chair experience, sector, tenure, region, first board or fifth, also governs a charity - filters 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. LinkedIn's own user agreement disclaims "any implied warranty of... accuracy"; a register cannot. Where we resolve two records into one person we say so and show the method, and every derived figure on the site explains what it counts and what it excludes.

Use it alongside LinkedIn, not instead

An honest boundary: statutory registers hold no email addresses or phone numbers, so neither do we. The register tells you who sits where, whose board is opening, and who can introduce you - the truth and the route. LinkedIn is where you send the message. Together they are a complete workflow; apart, each is half of one.

A workspace your firm shares

Shortlists are shared across your firm's seats, exports carry your firm's name, and the constellation maps and board-composition panels are client-ready - every claim on them traceable to a public filing. The work your researchers do in the register compounds instead of evaporating when a mandate closes.

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Twenty fictional organisations, one hundred and forty fictional people, every feature live - constellations, warm paths, board signals, ownership. No account, no card, nothing to cancel. If it does not make your next search faster, close the tab.

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Pricing

PlanSeatsPer monthBilled annually
Solo - independent recruiters1£99£1,188/year
Firm - search firms3 included, +£79/month per extra£299£3,588/year
Enterpriseby agreementpriced per account, by invoice

Prices ex VAT. Terms run 12 months - the register is a standing research capability, not a month of harvesting. Pay by card or request an invoice; invoices are issued by WhatLabs Ltd. Each seat carries a monthly research allowance sized well past any hand-run search - it exists to keep the register out of bulk scrapers, and most seats never notice it.

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