CIVITAS LIMITED

Registered charity 1085494 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q5124783 · Wikipedia · also known as CIVITAS, THE INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF CIVIL SOCIETY

Research, publication of findings, organising seminars and conferences, encouraging community development, running supplementary schools, monitoring and studying human rights such as those based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE STUDY AND UNDERSTANDING OF RELIGION AND ETHICS IN SOCIETY AND ANY OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSE.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves decreased to £441,170 from £508,838 in the prior year, while total net assets fell to £647,227. The trustees confirm these funds are adequate to fulfill obligations for the foreseeable future, despite a net expenditure of £73,131 for the year. The charity relies entirely on voluntary donations and has no stated reserves policy target other than maintaining a reserve up to an average year's expenditure.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~12.1 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (92% 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 (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (28/11/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr DAVID COSTAIN
• Dr DAVID GEORGE GREEN
• HON JUSTIN EDWARD MAGNUS SHAW
• Peter Desmond Clifford LLOYD
• SIR ALAN WALTER RUDGE CBE
• Tom Harris

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE CIVIL LIBERTIES TRUST.

• THE CIVIL LIBERTIES TRUST income £2.5m
• Humanitas income £351k
• GLOUCESTER CIVIC TRUST LIMITED income £228k
• THE CITY CHARITY TRUST income £128k
• THE CHARITY SERVICE LIMITED income £1.3m
• MARCH CIVIC TRUST income £44k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.