THE UK CYBER SECURITY COUNCIL

Registered charity 1198846 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as UKCSC

The Council is the self-regulatory body for the UK's cyber security profession. It develops, promotes and stewards nationally recognised standards for cyber security and the development of clear and inclusive career paths in support of the UK Government's National Cyber Security Strategy to make the UK the safest place to live and work online.

Objects

THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE COUNCIL IS ESTABLISHED ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, TO THE PROTECTION OF THE PUBLIC, CRITICAL NATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE, COMMERCE, PUBLIC SECTOR AND THIRD SECTOR SERVICES AND INDIVIDUAL PERSONAL DATA FROM THE THREAT OF CYBER CRIME AND CYBER ATTACK BY THE CREATION AND MAINTENANCE OF HIGH STANDARDS AND BEST PRACTICE IN CYBER SECURITY.

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves are maintained to provide three months of financial cover, and the year-end level is in line with this policy. The trustees report a material uncertainty regarding forecast growth in commercial income, noting that failure to realize this growth could challenge the organization's ability to continue as a going concern beyond the 12-month assessment period.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Moore Kingston Smith. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: no going-concern doubt (FY2024) → material uncertainty (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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 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

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

Reported reserves equal ~7.0 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (73% 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Carla Baker BSc
• Dr Chitra Balakrishna · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Mary Kathleen Haigh · trustee of 1 other charity
• Frances LeGrys · trustee of 1 other charity
• Kamalanadan Nathan Nagaiah
• Michael Stuart Watson · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Ireland · Scotland · 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 ENGINEERING COUNCIL.

• THE ENGINEERING COUNCIL income £3.5m
• BRITISH SAFETY COUNCIL income £11.6m
• RESUSCITATION COUNCIL (UK) income £4.6m
• THE BRITISH COMPUTER SOCIETY income £21.9m
• THE UNITED KINGDOM COUNCIL FOR PSYCHOTHERAPY income £3.2m
• GENERAL OPTICAL COUNCIL income £12.2m

Side by side with its peers

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