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Registered charity · Alton

Chawton House Library

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £641k (2024)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

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

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About

What it does
Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Hampshire
Website
www.chawtonhouse.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Chawton House Library
Registered
1993

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£641k£662k
  • 2023£653k£712k
  • 2022£602k£738k
Earlier years
  • 2021£534k£675k
  • 2020£543k£618k

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Income source mix, 2024: Government grants 2%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

1. TO PROMOTE STUDY AND RESEARCH IN EARLY ENGLISH WOMEN'S LITERATURE. 2. TO PROTECT RESTORE AND PRESERVE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC CHAWTON HOUSE CHAWTON ALTON HAMPSHIRE AND THE SURROUNDING FIELDS. 3. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC BY CREATING AND MAINTAINING AT THE PROPERTY A RURAL ENGLISH WORKING MANOR FARM OF THE LATE EIGHTEENTH AND EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURIES

Grants received

3 grants · £206,800 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

Most recent

  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £35,6002021-03-08
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £71,2002020-10-14
  • Garfield Weston Foundation £100,0002017-11-16
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

4.8y median 3y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

10.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (2)

7
company-linked trustees

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

Arts/culture/heritage/science 9Education/training 9Environment/conservation/heritage 9

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 11Education 3Health and social care 2

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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£641k latest income · spending exceeded income in 2023 and 2024
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.

0.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 1.9 in 2020

14 from 20 in 2020
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
1026921
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 3 SEPTEMBER 1993 AS AMENDED ON 14/07/1995, 14/05/1998 AND 17/10/2005.
Companies House
Company number 02851718 · Active
Contact on the register
01420541010 · info@chawtonhouse.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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