The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 12th July 2026

The Anvil Trust Limited

Registered charity 1034961 Registered since 1994

Operates: Bracknell Forest, West Berkshire, Reading, Slough, Windsor And Maidenhead, Wokingham, Hampshire, Oxfordshire, Surrey

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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.

8 trustees on the board

3.2y median 2y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

7
company-linked trustees

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 15Construction 1Finance 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.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£6.9m latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

3.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 13.0 in 2021

151 from 116 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.

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

Also active in the same field

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitewww.anvilarts.org.uk
EmailMatthew.Cleaver@anvilarts.org.uk
Phone01256 819797
AddressAnvil Trust Offices, Churchill Way, BASINGSTOKE, RG21 7QR

Finances

£6,933,075 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£2,000,072£1,641,134
2022£3,940,447£3,887,517
2023£6,149,322£6,015,235
2024£6,394,736£6,454,858
2025£6,933,075£7,297,629

What it does

What

General Charitable PurposesEducation/trainingArts/culture/heritage/scienceEconomic/community Development/employment

Who

The General Public/mankind

How

Provides Buildings/facilities/open SpaceProvides Services

Charitable objects

1) TO PROVIDE AND MAINTAIN A PUBLIC HALL. 2) TO FURTHER THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN MUSIC AND THE OTHER ARTS. 3) TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION FOR PERSONS LIVING, WORKING OR STUDYING IN OR NEAR BASINGSTOKE WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE AND FOR OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC.

Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 4 MARCH 1994 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 27 SEPTEMBER 2000

Trustees (8)

8trustees
55median age
0aged 70+

Linked company (Companies House)

The Anvil Trust LTD · 02720007 · Active

PRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of 'Limited' exemption) · incorporated 03/06/1992

4 governing document(s) held from Companies House.

Connected charities (0)

No charities share a trustee (from current data).

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