Registered charity · West Sussex

The Petworth Cottage Trust

9 trustees
Income £4k (2025)

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, Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where: West Sussex
Website: www.petworthcottagemuseum.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company: The Petworth Cottage Trust
Registered: 1995

Income and spending

YearIncomeSpending
2025£4k£12k
2024£3k£11k
2023£9k£13k

Earlier years

2022£11k£9k
2021£13k£5k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2022: Government grants 74%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC BY AFFORDING THEM ACCESS TO THE LECONFIELD ESTATE WORKERS COTTAGE AT 346 HIGH STREET PETWORTH IN THE COUNTY OF WEST SUSSEX RESTORED AND FURNISHED AS IT WOULD HAVE APPEARED IN ABOUT THE YEAR 1910 WHEN THE LECONFIELD ESTATE WAS AT ITS APOGEE.

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

7.9y median 7y

average tenure

14y

longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

Andrew Brooke since 2019
Andrew Charles Howard since 2012
Ann Morrill since 2017
Deborah Jane Wright since 2012
Jean Dorothy Huggett since 2020

14.4y

average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

Portfolio (3)

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 8Accommodation/housing 1Amateur Sport 1Religious Activities 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 9Health and social care 1

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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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£4k latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025

Sources

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

Record details

Registered charity number: 1044840
Status: Registered
Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION DATED 31ST JAN 1995
Companies House: Company number 03016747 · Active
Contact on the register: 01798343220 · PETWORTHCOTTAGEMUSEUM@YAHOO.CO.UK
Edition: Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels: Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.

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