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Registered charity · Bexhill-on-Sea

DE LA Warr Pavilion Charitable Trust

  • 13 trustees
  • Income £3.9m (2025)
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About

What it does
Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
East Sussex
Website
www.dlwp.com (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
DE LA Warr Pavilion Charitable Trust
Registered
1997

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£3.9m£4.4m
  • 2024£4.7m£4.7m
  • 2023£3.9m£4.4m
Earlier years
  • 2022£4.1m£3.6m
  • 2021£3.0m£2.3m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 27%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

(1) TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN, IMPROVE AND ADVANCE EDUCATION NATIONALLY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT PARTICULARLY BY THE PRESENTATION OR PRODUCTION OF EDUCATIONAL PLAYS, CONCERTS AND EXHIBITIONS; EDUCATION AND EXHIBITIONS RELATING TO 20TH CENTURY MODERNIST ARCHITECTURE AND THE MODERN MOVEMENT, AND THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE ARTS INCLUDING THE VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS INCLUDING (BUT NOT LIMITED TO) DRAMA, MUSIC, FINE ART, ARCHITECTURE AND PHOTOGRAPHY. (2) TO PROMOTE THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF ROTHER, EAST SUSSEX AND THE SURROUNDING AREA BY THE PROVISIONS OF THE FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE SAID INHABITANTS BY PROVIDING, MAINTAINING AND MAKING AVAILABLE A THEATRE, ART GALLERY, PUBLIC HALL, RECREATION CENTRE AND OTHER FACILITIES FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION. (3) TO PRESERVE AND MAINTAIN FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT THE DE LA WARR PAVILION IN BEXHILL AND SUCH OTHER FEATURES ASSOCIATED WITH THE PAVILION AS ARE OF SPECIAL HISTORICAL OR ARCHITECTURAL INTEREST.

Grants received

15 grants · £5,245,993 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 · £2,433,100 (3 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £1,784,540 (6 grants)
  • Garfield Weston Foundation · £768,000 (2 grants)
  • Paul Hamlyn Foundation · £130,917 (2 grants)
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £99,500

Most recent

  • Garfield Weston Foundation £500,0002026-03-23
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £99,5002025-12-03
  • Youth Music £29,9362023-02-20
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £400,0002022-03-04
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £517,7852021-12-13
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.

13 trustees on the board

4.2y median 4y
average tenure
11y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

10.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (12)

Portfolio (1)

12
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 13Education/training 13Environment/conservation/heritage 12General 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 17Hospitality 3Other services 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.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£3.9m latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

0.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 2.0 in 2021

59 from 49 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.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1065586
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED ON 8 OCTOBER 1997, AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 17TH OCTOBER 2003, AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION OF NAME CHANGE ON 28TH JANUARY 2004
Companies House
Company number 03446307 · Active
Contact on the register
01424229126 · karen.rye@dlwp.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
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