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Registered charity · Bedfordshire

Richard Shuttleworth Trustees

  • 13 trustees
  • Income £6.8m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Education/training, Environment/conservation/heritage, Other Charitable Purposes
Where
Central Bedfordshire, Bedford
Website
www.shuttleworth.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Richard Shuttleworth Trustees
Registered
1992

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£6.8m£6.5m
  • 2024£6.1m£6.0m
  • 2023£5.3m£5.2m
Earlier years
  • 2022£5.9m£6.0m
  • 2021£5.4m£4.8m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2022: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE COMPANY IS ESTABLISHED ARE: 2.1 THE PROMOTION OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN THE SCIENCE AND PRACTICE AND HISTORY OF AVIATION AND AUTOMOTIVE TRANSPORT; AND 2.2 THE PROMOTION OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN THE SCIENCE AND PRACTICE OF AGRICULTURE AND IN SO FAR AS IT IS ANCILLARY THERETO EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN THE SCIENCE AND PRACTICE OF FOOD PRODUCTION AND THE MANAGEMENT OF RURAL RESOURCES BY THE PROVISION AND CONDUCT, OR BY ASSISTING IN OR MAKING ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE PROVISION AND CONDUCT OF A COLLEGE (?THE COLLEGE?); 2.3 TO SUPPORT AND ASSIST THE WORK OF THE CHARITY KNOWN AS THE RICHARD ORMONDE SHUTTLEWORTH REMEMBRANCE TRUST (THE ?TRUST?) (REGISTERED NUMBER 307534) IN THE FURTHERANCE OF ITS CHARITABLE OBJECTS.

Grants received

1 grant · £18,503 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · £18,503

Most recent

  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £18,5032020-04-01
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.

9.5y median 9y
average tenure
15y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

15.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (3)

11
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 13Environment/conservation/heritage 12Other Charitable Purposes 11Accommodation/housing 1Amateur Sport 1General Charitable Purposes 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.

Professional services 13Education 4Hospitality 3

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£6.8m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

6.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 10.6 in 2021

46 from 53 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1012224
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 1/5/92 AND AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION 29/5/92. AND 18/6/92.AS AMENDED 25TH OCTOBER 1993.AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 16 JUL 2017AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 18 JUL 2017
Companies House
Company number 02712981 · Active
Contact on the register
01767627979 · enquiries@shuttleworth.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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