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Colwinston Charitable Trust

Colwinston Charitable Trust is a registered charity (number 1049189) based in London, governed by 6 trustees and chaired by Mathew Caradoc Thomas Prichard CBE DL since 1995. Latest income £1.3m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 18th October 2026.

  • 6 trustees
  • Income £1.3m (2025)
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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.colwinston.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1995

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.3m£999k
  • 2024£1.6m£1.2m
  • 2023£1.1m£588k
Earlier years
  • 2022£441k£202k
  • 2021£5k£101k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

THE TRUSTEES SHALL HOLD THE TRUST FUND AND ITS INCOME UPON TRUST TO APPLY THEM FOR SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT.

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.

13.3y median 11y
average tenure
31y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

13.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (4)

Portfolio (2)

2
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 6General Charitable Purposes 6

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 4Education 3Business services 2

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together
  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

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£1.3m 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.

23.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 24.9 in 2021

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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
1049189
Status
Registered
Governing document
TRUST DEED DATED 8TH JUNE 1995.
Contact on the register
02078422000 · colwinstontrust@colwinston.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 18th October 2026
Labels
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