Registered charity · London
The Charles Darwin Trust
- 7 trustees
- Income £2k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th 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, Environment/conservation/heritage
- Where
- Throughout England And Wales
- Website
- www.charlesdarwintrust.org (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- The Charles Darwin Trust
- Registered
- 1999
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£2k£7k
- 2024£3k£3k
- 2023£2k£6k
Earlier years
- 2022£481£4k
- 2021£13£6k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Charitable objects
(A) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND ELSEWHERE IN RELATION TO: (I) THE LIFE AND WORK OF CHARLES DARWIN, AND (II) THE DEVELOPMENT AND UNDERSTANDING OF NATURAL HISTORY AND THE LIFE SCIENCES WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO DARWIN'S HOME AT DOWN HOUSE AND TO ANY ASSOCIATED INSTITUTIONS IN THE VILLAGE OF DOWNE IN KENT;(B) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND SUCH OTHER PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY AS SHALL BE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE
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
- Dr Claire Yvonne Barlow since 2020
- Dr Chiara Ceci since 2025
- Dr Sarah Catherine Darwin since 2022
- Emma Newall since 2016
- Karen Goldie-Morrison since 2015
- Professor James Costa since 2026
- Revd Professor Michael Jonathan Reiss since 2011
Trustees past 6 years
- Dr Claire Yvonne Barlow since 2020
- Emma Newall since 2016
- Karen Goldie-Morrison since 2015
- Revd Professor Michael Jonathan Reiss since 2011
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (5)
- Dr Chiara Ceci since 2025
- Dr Sarah Catherine Darwin since 2022
- Emma Newall since 2016
- Karen Goldie-Morrison since 2015
- Professor James Costa since 2026
Portfolio (2)
- Dr Claire Yvonne Barlow since 2020
- Revd Professor Michael Jonathan Reiss since 2011
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1074914
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM OF ARTICLES AND ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 13 JANUARY 1999 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 23 OCTOBER 2008
- Companies House
- Company number 03694613 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 07767691972 · info@charlesdarwintrust.org
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 20th 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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