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Registered charity · Ambleside

The Wordsworth Trust

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £2.2m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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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, Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.wordsworth.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Wordsworth Trust
Registered
1997

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£2.2m£1.9m
  • 2024£1.5m£1.9m
  • 2023£1.4m£1.9m
Earlier years
  • 2022£2.9m£2.1m
  • 2021£2.9m£1.4m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 20%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

A) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE WORKS OF THE POET WILLIAM WORDSWORTH AND IN PARTICULAR TO MAINTAIN DOVE COTTAGE, GRASMERE AND ITS ENVIRONS AND TO PRESERVE AND DEVELOP THE TRUST'S PERMANENT COLLECTIONS AS A LIVING MEMORIAL TO HIM. B) TO ADVANCE THE PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE AND ENJOYMENT OF THE LITERATURE AND CULTURE OF THE ROMANTIC PERIOD (1750 TO 1850)

Grants received

13 grants · £8,831,200 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.

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Most recent

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.

3.6y median 4y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure
8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (5)

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 12Education/training 12Amateur Sport 1Environment/conservation/heritage 1Religious Activities 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 18Education 3Other services 1

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£2.2m 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.

4.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 1.6 in 2021

29 from 38 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
1066184
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 30/12/1997NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 23/10/2001AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 15/11/2003AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 10/08/2007AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 15/11/2008NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 08/04/2011 as amended on 30 Jan 2019
Companies House
Company number 03442086 · Active
Contact on the register
01539435544 · enquiries@wordsworth.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
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