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British Council

A Registered Charity based in England

Active Registered Charity (Scotland) Cross Border Charity Statutory corporation (Royal Charter etc)

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GB-SC-SC037733

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The best identifier for this organisation is GB-CHC-209131 .
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Description

(a) promote cultural relationships between the people of the United Kingdom and other countries. (b) develop a wider knowledge of the English language. and (c) encourage educational co-operation between the United Kingdom and other countries, support the advancement of United Kingdom education and education standards overseas, and otherwise promote education.

OSCR Charity number

SC037733

Registered

Postcode

E20 1JQ

Website

britishcouncil.org

Latest income

£873,335,000 (on )

This organisation record is based on data from Office of Scottish Charity Regulator Charity Register Download published by Office of Scottish Charity Regulator.

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Locations

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Registered Office in the UK

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This organisation record is part of a group of linked records that describe a single organisation. The organisation is linked to 3 active records and 0 inactive records, from 3 data sources.

The best identifier for this organisation is GB-CHC-209131 .
What is an organisation identifier?

An organisation identifier is a unique piece of text that definitively identifies an organisation.

Examples include charity numbers and company numbers.

Identifiers are usually assigned by an external body like a regulator.

Findthatcharity uses the Org ID scheme to create identifiers.

GB-SC gives the scheme for this identifier (Scottish Charity Register), while SC037733 is the identifier for this organisation within the scheme.

British Council (this record)

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The British Council

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British Council

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British Council

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Themes and activities

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This organisation has been classified using different categories:

Activities (OSCR)

  • It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations
  • It carries out activities or services itself

Beneficiaries (OSCR)

  • Children or young people
  • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community

Purposes (OSCR)

  • The advancement of education
  • The advancement of citizenship or community development
  • The advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science

International Classification of Non-profit and Third Sector Organizations (ICNP/TSO)

ICNP/TSO categories have been automatically assigned from a machine learning model, as part of the UK Charity Classification project.

  • Culture and arts not elsewhere classfied A19

UK Charity Activity Tags

These tags are taken from a project to classify all UK charities using a common set of tags. The tags are applied using keyword searching, so may be incorrect for particular cases.

Visit charityclassification.org.uk for more information on the project. If you have any feedback on the classification system or how it has been applied there is a form on the project homepage.

  • Education ED

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Charity financial history

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Year ending Income (£) Spending (£)
2007-01-16 Registered as a charity
2017-03-31 1,076,893,000 1,075,657,000
2018-03-31 1,172,340,000 1,156,663,000
2019-03-31 1,249,532,498 1,218,658,273
2020-03-31 1,288,716,000 1,295,818,000
2021-03-31 924,965,000 1,015,114,000
2022-03-31 896,656,000 942,311,000
2023-03-31 873,335,000 925,159,000
Income and Spending
Funds and Reserves

Data on funds and reserves are only available for financial years where the charity's income was more than £500,000.

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Grants received

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Received 47 grants. Showing most recent 10 grants.

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Date Funder Amount awarded Description
Department for Education
ITT Scholarships 		£46,618 ITT Scholarships
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
International Cultural Protection - DCMS/CIJA - Antiquities Trafficking Project 		£2,498,083 British Council Cultural Protection Fund
Pears Foundation £150,000
3 years 		Grant to British Council - Occupied Palestinian Territories Office
Sep 2020 to Sep 2023
Department for Education
Learned Scholarships Administration 		£153,622 Learned Scholarships Administration
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
ALB - National Heritage Memorial Fund - National Heritage Memorial Fund 2019-20 		£37,500 Our Shared Cultural Heritage (OSCH)
Arts Council England £60,000 Edinburgh Showcase 2019
Department for International Development
Strategic Research Fund 		£174,235 Strategic Research on Mother Tongue impacting learning outcomes in Ethiopia Education systems especially for disadvantaged learners
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
Partnership for Learning for All in Nigerian Education - PLANE 		£1,267,386 PLANE - Accelerated Learning
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
ALB - Arts Council England - Investment Funds 		£20,000 Next Generation 2.0 / Generate
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
ALB - Arts Council England - Investment Funds 		£60,000 CED UK 2019-20

Data source

Some grants data comes from funders who publish data using the 360Giving Data Standard. It was accessed using the 360Giving Datastore.

National Lottery grants data comes from the Department of Culture, Media and Sport who publish the National Lottery grants database.

This data is used under the Open Government Licence. Grants that are also published under 360Giving have been removed to ensure there is not duplication.

  • The National Lottery (2 grants) | Licence

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