The Leadership Centre for Local Government

Analysis

The Leadership Centre for Local Government is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in March 2008, 18 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, which this site groups under education and training. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 05467557). It says it makes grants to organisations, provides services and sponsors or undertakes research.

In the financial year ending March 2025, The Leadership Centre for Local Government reported income of £1.9m and spending of £2.0m, spending 103% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £1.4m to £1.9m (+34%), an average of +7.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income rose by 22%. Over the whole period it spent 106% of the income it received.

Among 21,402 England and Wales charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, The Leadership Centre for Local Government sits at the 95th percentile: it is larger than about 95% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 96th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Demos (£1.9m), The Directory of Social Change (£1.9m) and Peeple (£1.9m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 96%. Charitable activities took 98% of spending and raising funds 0.0%. It employed 7 people.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.