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Registered charity · Wellingborough

Rockingham Forest Trust

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £1.6m (2025)
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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, Amateur Sport, Environment/conservation/heritage and 2 more
Where
Northamptonshire
Website
www.rockingham-forest-trust.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Rockingham Forest Trust
Registered
1995

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.6m£1.7m
  • 2024£1.3m£1.5m
  • 2023£1.1m£1.3m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.3m£1.2m
  • 2021£967k£796k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 8%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE THE CONSERVATION,PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT ANYWHERE IN THE ROCKINGHAM FOREST AREA. (2) TO ENCOURAGE THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR APPROPRIATE RECREATION AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION-COMMENSURATE WITH CONSERVING THE FOREST ENVIRONMENT - WITH THE OBJECTIVE OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THOSE LIVING IN OR WORKING IN OR RESORTING TO ROCKINGHAM FOREST. (3) TO ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION IN ENVIRONMENTAL AND HERITAGE MATTERS IN THE ROCKINGHAM FOREST AND OF THE WAYS OF CONSERVING,PROTECTING AND IMPROVING THE SAME.

Grants received

18 grants · £2,367,523 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

  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £2,169,137 (8 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £64,200
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £51,823 (6 grants)
  • Sport England · £40,000
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · £22,363

Most recent

  • Garfield Weston Foundation £20,0002025-10-15
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £250,0002025-07-17
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £237,9372023-08-02
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £22,3632023-04-01
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £250,0002022-02-17
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

1.4y median 2y
average tenure
2y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
3.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

Portfolio (1)

8
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 9Amateur Sport 8Arts/culture/heritage/science 8Religious Activities 1The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 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 12Business services 1Dormant 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£1.6m 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.

1.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 6.6 in 2021

44 from 26 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
1050157
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION DATED 17TH OCTOBER 1995.
Companies House
Company number 03114783 · Active
Contact on the register
01933625527 · info@rftrust.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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