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Registered charity · Essex

The Copped Hall Trust

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £314k (2024)

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, Recreation
Where
Essex
Website
coppedhalltrust.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Copped Hall Trust
Registered
1997

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£314k£462k
  • 2023£424k£476k
  • 2022£654k£366k
Earlier years
  • 2021£609k£277k
  • 2020£740k£192k
Charitable objects

1. THE CONSERVATION, RESTORATION, MAINTENANCE AND ENHANCEMENT FOR T HE BENEFIT OF THE DISTRICT OF EPPING FOREST IN ESSEX AND OF THE NATION AT LARGE OF COPPED HALL, IN EPPING ESSEX AND ITS OUTBUILDINGS, GARDENS, GROUNDS AND ENVIRONS FOR THE TIME BEING (TOGETHER CALLED "COPPED HALL"); AND 2. TO ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION BY SUCH MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL THINK FIT PARTICULARLY (WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY) IN THE HISTORY AND ARCHITECTURAL VALUE OF COPPED HALL AND THE HISTORY AND ECOLOGICAL VALUE OF EPPING FOREST AND ITS SUPPORT LANDS; AND 3. IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE, TO PROVIDE, OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES AT COPPED HALL FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE RECREATIONAL CHARITIES ACT 1958. ("SUPPORT LANDS") MEANS THOSE LANDS ADJACENT TO OR SURROUNDING EPPING FOREST WHICH PROVIDE ECOLOGICAL PROTECTION FOR THE FOREST.

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.

8 trustees on the board

4.1y median 3y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

13.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (1)

7
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 8Environment/conservation/heritage 8Recreation 8

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 7Education 3Hospitality 3

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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£314k latest income · spending exceeded income in 2023 and 2024

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1065569
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 1ST SEPTEMBER 1997
Companies House
Company number 03428819 · Active
Contact on the register
07785237880 · john.dawson@coppedhall.uk
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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