Registered charity · Congleton
The Rudyard Lake Trust
- 9 trustees
- Income £81k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources
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, Environment/conservation/heritage
- Where
- Cheshire East, Derbyshire, Staffordshire, Cheshire West & Chester
- Website
- www.rudyardlake.com (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 1996
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£81k£81k
- 2024£76k£28k
- 2023£49k£21k
Earlier years
- 2022£59k£21k
- 2021£102k£39k
Charitable objects
1) TO CONSERVE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT OF RUDYARD RESERVIOR AND ITS SURROUNDING AREA. 2) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE SAID AREA.
Board analysis for researchers
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
- Raymond Perry Chair
- Charlotte Kelly since 2025
- David Copeland
- Frank Lewis
- Geoffrey Buxton
- Heather Rowley-Dixon
- Howard Frank Beswick since 2024
- James Gary Lowe since 2024
- Mark Johnson since 2024
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (6)
- Raymond Perry Chair
- Charlotte Kelly since 2025
- David Copeland
- Geoffrey Buxton
- Heather Rowley-Dixon
- James Gary Lowe since 2024
Portfolio (3)
- Frank Lewis
- Howard Frank Beswick since 2024
- Mark Johnson since 2024
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Gaps to watch
- No commercial or business experience on the board
- Mostly recent joiners - limited long-term continuity
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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Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1056268
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- DECLARATION OF TRUST DATED 5 JUNE 1996
- Contact on the register
- 07718808881
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 13th September 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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