Centre for Governance and Scrutiny

Registered charity 1136243 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE CENTRE FOR PUBLIC SCRUTINY LTD

The Centre for Governance and Scrutiny (CfGS) is social purpose consultancy and national centre of expertise. Our purpose is to help organisations achieve their outcomes through improved governance and scrutiny.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted reserves of £359,592 at year end, which exceeds the trustees' policy target of holding 3–6 months of core operating costs. The charity reported a net income surplus of £101,696 for the year, having reduced total expenditure to £602,689 from £774,245 in the previous year.

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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05133443

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• MURRAY, Iain Guthrie — director, appointed 12/11/2025on trustee list
• DAWSON, James Clifford Hedley, Councillor — director, appointed 29/10/2024on trustee list
• VAIDYA-SAHDEV, Radhika — director, appointed 13/07/2021on trustee list
• BAILEY, Helen Ruth — director, appointed 31/01/2019on trustee list
• HOWE, Catherine Ann, Dr — director, appointed 26/04/2017on trustee list
• CARR-WEST, Jonathan Chasey, Dr — director, appointed 07/05/2013on trustee list
• BEARMAN, Sue Louise — secretary, appointed 24/03/2026

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~7.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (62% 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).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Councillor James Dawson
• Dr Catherine HOWE
• Helen Ruth Bailey
• Iain Murray
• Jonathan Chasey CARR-WEST
• Radhika Vaidya-Sahdev

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE CENTRE FOR GLOBAL STUDIES.

• THE CENTRE FOR GLOBAL STUDIES income £95k
• CENTRE FOR CITIES income £1.6m
• VOLUNTARY SECTOR CENTRES income £1.7m
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• CENTRE FOR ENABLING EA LEARNING & RESEARCH income £284k
• THE CHARTERED SECRETARIES' CHARITABLE TRUST income £238k

Side by side with its peers

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