GUILDHE LIMITED

Registered charity 1012218 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as STANDING CONFERENCE OF PRINCIPALS LIMITED

One of the two formal representative bodies for UK higher education institutions.

Objects

TO PROMOTE AND IMPROVE THE EFFICIENCY OF CHARITABLE COLLEGES OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE UNITED KINGDOM IN DIRECT FURTHERANCE OF THEIR OBJECTS BY THE PROMOTION OF DISCUSSION AND CONSULTATION, THE FORMULATION OF POLICIES AND THE PROVISION OF REPRESENTATION, INFORMATION ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE

Area of benefit: UNITED KINGDOM

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: City of London, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net operating surplus of £58,671 for the year ended 31 July 2025, with total unrestricted reserves standing at £1,630,060. The trustees confirmed that adequate resources are available to fund activities for the foreseeable future, and the independent auditors reported no material uncertainties regarding the going concern basis. The charity holds a significant designated fund of £700,000 to recognize potential liabilities associated with its membership of the Universities Superannuation Scheme.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Knox Cropper LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 3 were received after the due date: year ending 31/07/2025 (received 01/06/2026, 1 day after the 31/05/2026 due date); year ending 31/07/2023 (received 24/06/2024, 24 days after the 31/05/2024 due date); year ending 31/07/2021 (received 08/06/2022, 8 days after the 31/05/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~18.4 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (96% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anthony Paul McClaranchair
• Clare Jane Connor
• Lisa Mann
• Olivier Robert-Murphy
• Prof Kenneth Mark Sloan
• Prof Sean McNamara
• Professor Jacquelyn Dunne · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor Lesley Haig
• Ross Alexander Renton

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with The Guild for Lifelong Learning Limited.

• The Guild for Lifelong Learning Limited income £599k
• THE CITY AND GUILDS OF LONDON INSTITUTE income £174.8m
• HURDALE CHARITY LIMITED income £2.3m
• CLYDPRIDE LIMITED income £4.0m
• GILCHRIST EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £125k
• BRID GARDENS income £106k

Side by side with its peers

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