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Registered charity · Bedford

The Greensand Trust

  • 5 trustees
  • Income £2.0m (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
Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Central Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Bedford
Website
www.greensandtrust.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Greensand Trust
Registered
1999

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£2.0m£1.8m
  • 2024£1.7m£1.7m
  • 2023£1.9m£1.9m
Earlier years
  • 2022£5.0m£1.6m
  • 2021£1.5m£1.3m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 35% · Government grants 9%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

(A) TO PROMOTE, ENCOURAGE AND PROCURE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC THE IMPROVEMENT, PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION OF THE COUNTRYSIDE OF THE GREENSAND RIDGE AND ITS SURROUNDINGS AND ITS TOWNS AND VILLAGES AND THE BETTER DEVELOPMENT OF THE RURAL ENVIRONMENT. (B) TO PROVIDE FACILITIES FOR THE RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF THE PUBLIC ON THE GREENSAND RIDGE AND ITS SURROUNDING AREA, WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE. (C) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC.

Grants received

15 grants · £422,778 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 · £305,950 (4 grants)
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · £90,959 (6 grants)
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £24,769 (3 grants)
  • Henry Smith Foundation · £1,100 (2 grants)

Most recent

  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £19,7212024-04-01
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £13,9792024-04-01
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £39,6492024-04-01
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £249,0002020-06-22
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £8,3992020-04-01
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.

5 trustees on the board

7y median 5y
average tenure
11y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

21.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (4)

Portfolio (1)

5
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 4Education/training 1General Charitable Purposes 1The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 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 5Property 4Construction 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£2.0m latest income · income exceeded spending 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.

1.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 1.0 in 2021

32 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.
44%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1077055
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 27TH JANUARY 1999
Companies House
Company number 03702419 · Active
Contact on the register
01234 743666 · info@greensandtrust.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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