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Registered charity · Great Yarmouth

The Seachange Trust

  • 7 trustees
  • Income £2.8m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Norfolk
Website
www.seachangearts.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Seachange Trust
Registered
1997

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£2.8m£1.1m
  • 2024£1.9m£1.4m
  • 2023£1.3m£1.3m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.2m£1.4m
  • 2021£726k£548k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 1% · Government grants 2%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

(A) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE ARTS; (B) TO EDUCATE AND TRAIN YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULTS IN WORK AND LIFE SKILLS LIKELY TO ENABLE THEM SUBSEQUENTLY TO FIND SATISFACTORY EMPLOYMENT OR TO START UP IN BUSINESS AND BECOME SELF-EMPLOYED AND BY SUCH MEANS ALSO TO RELIEVE POVERTY; (C) A PROVISION IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATIONS FOR INHABITANTS OF GREAT YARMOUTH AND SURROUNDING AREAS, THE FACILITIES (1) OF WHICH THOSE PERSONS HAVE NEED BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES AND (2) WHICH WILL IMPROVE THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR SUCH PERSONS BY PROMOTING THEIR PHYSICAL, MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL WELL-BEING

Grants received

20 grants · £3,532,457 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 · £2,212,842 (7 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £896,352 (5 grants)
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £256,960 (4 grants)
  • BBC Children in Need · £93,803
  • Virgin Money Foundation · £50,000

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Community Fund £12,4782024-12-18
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £1,968,0612023-09-12
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £75,9812022-09-15
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £397,1762021-12-13
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £84,5402021-10-12
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.

7 trustees on the board

6.7y median 8y
average tenure
12y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

11.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

Portfolio (1)

6
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 6Animals 1Education/training 1General Charitable Purposes 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 7Business services 3Other services 3

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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£2.8m 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.

2.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 12.2 in 2021

9 from 11 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.
3%
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
1063853
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 15/05/1997AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 18/03/2011
Companies House
Company number 03370914 · Active
Contact on the register
01493 745 458 · hello@seachangearts.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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