COUNCIL OF PROFESSORS AND HEADS OF COMPUTING

Registered charity 803000 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as C P H C, CONFERENCE OF PROFESSORS AND HEADS OF COMPUTING, CONFERENCE OF PROFESSORS OF COMPUTER SCIENCE · also registered in Scotland as SC041548 (OSCR)

The objects of the Council are to advance public education in the core subject of computer science and in the wider context of computing and its applications.

Objects

TO ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION IN COMPUTER SCIENCE.

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: Education/training · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Swindon, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity operated at a significant deficit of £48,649, reducing its unrestricted reserves from £61,561 to £12,912. Per the trustees' report, this level of reserves is below the stated policy target of six months' expenditure, although the trustees maintain that the charity remains a going concern.

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 5 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.

• Complaints handling
• Conflicting interests
• Investment
• Risk management
• 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Kevin Fraser Chalmers · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Nicole Danino
• Dr Paul Michael Sant
• Professor Darren Dancey
• Professor James Davenport
• Professor Kate Samara Hone
• Professor Steven Bradley · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Northern 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 NATIONAL MUSEUM OF COMPUTING.

• THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF COMPUTING income £955k
• THE CENTRE FOR COMPUTING HISTORY income £417k
• COMMITTEE OF UNIVERSITY CHAIRS income £423k
• THE INSTITUTION OF ANALYSTS & PROGRAMMERS income £48k
• SCIENCE PROJECTS income £1.2m
• THE BRITISH COMPUTER SOCIETY income £21.9m

Side by side with its peers

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