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Registered charity · Lyndhurst

Minstead Trust

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £8.7m (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, Disability, Accommodation/housing, Economic/community Development/employment
Where
Throughout England
Website
www.minsteadtrust.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Minstead Trust
Registered
1996

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£8.7m£8.6m
  • 2024£7.7m£7.6m
  • 2023£6.5m£6.7m
Earlier years
  • 2022£5.4m£5.3m
  • 2021£4.6m£3.7m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 52% · Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

(1) TO SUPPORT PEOPLE WITH A DISABILITY, OR OTHERWISE EXCLUDED BY THEIR SOCIAL OR ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES AND MEMBERS OF THEIR FAMILY AND THEIR CARERS BY MEANS OF PROVIDING SERVICES, FACILITIES, CAMPAIGNING AND SUPPORT TO ENABLE THEM TO LEAD MORE INDEPENDENT AND FULFILLING LIVES AND BECOME FULLY INTEGRATED IN SOCIETY.(2) TO PRESERVE, MAINTAIN AND DEVELOP THE HISTORIC GARDENS AND BUILDINGS PARTICULARLY AT FURZEY GARDENS, MINSTEAD FOR THE ENJOYMENT AND BENEFIT OF HORTICULTURAL GROUPS AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC AND IN PARTICULAR PEOPLE WHO ARE OTHERWISE EXCLUDED BY THEIR SOCIAL OR ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES.(3) TO PROVIDE FACILITIES FOR THE BETTER CARRYING OUT OF THE OBJECTS HEREIN REFERRED TO WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THIS OBJECT TO PROVIDE LIBRARY, WORKSHOP, RESEARCH, EMPLOYMENT, TRAINING, RECREATIONAL, SPIRITUAL AND OTHER RESIDENTIAL AND NON-RESIDENTIAL FACILITIES AS MAY BE NECESSARY TO PROMOTE SUCH OBJECTS.

Grants received

5 grants · £195,540 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

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.

3y median 2y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

6.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (11)

11
company-linked trustees

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

Accommodation/housing 11Disability 11Education/training 11

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Education 13Manufacturing 3Retail and trade 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.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£8.7m 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.

1.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 20.5 in 2021

274 from 132 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.
52%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1053319
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 22 JAN 1996AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 24 JUN 2013AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 13 MAR 2017AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 27 SEP 2017 as amended on 10 Jul 2024
Companies House
Company number 03149116 · Active
Contact on the register
02380812297 · info@minsteadtrust.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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