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Registered charity · Marlborough

The Merchant's House (Marlborough) Trust

The Merchant's House (Marlborough) Trust is a registered charity (number 1010902) based in Marlborough, governed by 9 trustees and chaired by Keith Leslie Edwards since 2025. Latest income £130k (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 25th October 2026.

Also known as The Merchants House, The Merchants House Trust (Charity Commission)

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £130k (2025)
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About

What it does
Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Wiltshire
Website
www.themerchantshouse.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Merchant's House (Marlborough) Trust
Registered
1992

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£130k£140k
  • 2024£161k£167k
  • 2023£132k£209k
Earlier years
  • 2022£95k£131k
  • 2021£170k£172k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 4%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

A) TO PRESERVE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE TOWNSPEOPLE OF MARLBOROUGH IN THE DISTRICT OF KENNET IN THE COUNTY OF WILTSHIRE AND OF THE NATION AT LARGE, WHATEVER OF THE HISTORICAL, ARCHITECTURAL AND CONSTRUCTIONAL HERITAGE MAY EXIST IN AND AROUND THE DISTRICT OF KENNET AFORESAID IN THE FORM OF BUILDINGS (INCLUDING ANY BUILDING AS DEFINED IN SECTION 290 (1) OF THE TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1971) OF PARTICULAR BEAUTY OR HISTORICAL, ARCHITECTURAL OR CONSTRUCTIONAL INTEREST. B) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN THE SAID TOWN OF MARLBOROUGH AND IN THE NATION AT LARGE BY AQUIRING HOUSING AND EXHIBITING AND CONSERVING RESTORING AND REPAIRING OBJECTS AND COLLECTIONS OF AN EDUCATIONAL NATURE.

Grants received

3 grants · £22,500 total

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Top funders

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Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

9 trustees on the board

3.8y median 3y
average tenure
10y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

Portfolio (3)

9
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Education/training 9Arts/culture/heritage/science 8Environment/conservation/heritage 8Accommodation/housing 1The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Arts and leisure 9Retail and trade 4Education 1

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£161k latest income · spending exceeded income in 2023 and 2024

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1010902
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 8 APRIL as amended on 24 Sept 2025
Companies House
Company number 02704749 · Active
Contact on the register
01672511491 · trustmanager@themerchantshouse.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 25th October 2026
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