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Registered charity · Buckingham

The Stowe House Preservation Trust

a. to protect and preserve for the benefit of the public and of the nation Stowe House and its historic collections in the county of Buckingham; and b. operating and maintaining the Stowe House museum for the benefit of the public.

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £515k (2025)
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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
Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
shpt.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Stowe House Preservation Trust
Registered
1997

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£515k£739k
  • 2024£710k£770k
  • 2023£1.2m£617k
Earlier years
  • 2022£656k£649k
  • 2021£1.0m£639k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2022: Government grants 3%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

a. to protect and preserve for the benefit of the public and of the nation Stowe House and its historic collections in the county of Buckingham; and b. operating and maintaining the Stowe House museum for the benefit of the public.

Grants received

7 grants · £12,053,900 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 · £11,790,000 (4 grants)
  • Garfield Weston Foundation · £200,000 (2 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £63,900

Most recent

  • Garfield Weston Foundation £100,0002024-02-20
  • Garfield Weston Foundation £100,0002022-07-08
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £63,9002020-10-14
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £860,5002011-11-30
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £484,5002004-09-15
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.

8.6y median 10y
average tenure
15y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

16.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (4)

Portfolio (5)

7
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Environment/conservation/heritage 8Education/training 3General Charitable Purposes 2The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 2Accommodation/housing 1Arts/culture/heritage/science 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.

Property 24Arts and leisure 7Education 6

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£515k 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.

43.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 41.9 in 2021

4 from 6 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
1066272
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 30TH JUNE 1997 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION 22 SEPTEMBER 1999 as amended on 06 Dec 2024
Companies House
Company number 03394958 · Active
Contact on the register
01280818002 · schooladministrator@stowe.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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