The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 30th August 2026

Somerset House Trust

Registered charity 1063640 Registered since 1997

Operates: Throughout London

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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.

4y median 4y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

13.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

Portfolio (5)

13
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 14Education/training 14Environment/conservation/heritage 14

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

Property 47Finance 24Professional services 17

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£25.3m latest income
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.

0.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 2.9 in 2021

125 from 84 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.

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

Connected through a shared trustee

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitewww.somersethouse.org.uk
EmailCoSec@somersethouse.org.uk
Phone02078454670
AddressSomerset House Trust, Somerset House, Strand, LONDON, WC2R 1LA

Finances

£25,257,000 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£11,948,000£12,594,000
2022£16,954,000£17,701,000
2023£21,187,000£22,555,000
2024£25,510,000£24,933,000
2025£25,257,000£27,033,000

What it does

What

Education/trainingArts/culture/heritage/scienceEnvironment/conservation/heritage

Who

Children/young PeopleThe General Public/mankind

How

Provides Buildings/facilities/open SpaceOther Charitable Activities

Charitable objects

The objects of the Charity are for the public benefit:a. To advance education particularly (but not exclusively) with reference to the arts and culture and by the provision of a centre for the arts and culture in Somerset House in London;b. To advance the arts and culture particularly (but not exclusively) through the promotion, production and encouragement of all art forms, facilitating and increasing access to and participation in all art forms, both generally and for underrepresented groups; and c. To preserve, restore, maintain, improve and facilitate public access to the historic building known as Somerset House in London WC2 as an example of English national heritage.

Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 17TH JUNE 1997, AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS DATED 24TH APRIL 1998, 17TH SEPTEMBER 1998, 20TH AUGUST 2002 AND 17 SEPTEMBER 2003.NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 17 SEP 2020 as amended on 30 May 2025

Trustees (14)

14trustees
62median age
4aged 70+

Linked company (Companies House)

Somerset House Trust · 03388137 · Active

PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital) · incorporated 17/06/1997

6 governing document(s) held from Companies House.

Connected charities (6)

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