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Registered charity · Chesham

The Chiltern Society

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £709k (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
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Central Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, Oxfordshire and more
Website
www.chilternsociety.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Chiltern Society
Registered
2001

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£709k£721k
  • 2024£703k£600k
  • 2023£866k£882k
Earlier years
  • 2022£585k£530k
  • 2021£434k£434k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 4% · Government grants 4%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

1) ENCOURAGE CONSERVATION, DEVELOPMENT AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE AMENITIES, AREAS OF TRANQUILLITY AND FEATURES OF HISTORIC INTEREST IN THE CHILTERNS; 2) RAISE THE AWARENESS AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE CHARACTER AND HISTORY OF THE CHILTERNS AMONG THE PEOPLE OF ALL AGES AND TO ENCOURAGE THEM TO ENJOY AND CARE FOR ITS NATURAL ENVIRONMENT AND BEAUTY;3) ENCOURAGE HIGH STANDARDS OF TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING AND DESIGN IN THE CHILTERNS; AND4) PROMOTE SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS MAY FROM TIME TO TIME BE DETERMINED.

Grants received

6 grants · £426,308 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

Most recent

  • Rothschild Foundation £200,0002023-12-11
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £144,9892023-09-06
  • Rothschild Foundation £30,0002021-10-14
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £25,8002006-04-20
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £22,3192004-07-08
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.

11 trustees on the board

1.9y median 2y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

12.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

Portfolio (2)

11
company-linked trustees

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

Education/training 11General Charitable Purposes 11Arts/culture/heritage/science 10The 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.

Other services 14Tech and media 8Education 4

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£709k 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.

19.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months

8 from 10 in 2022
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.
8%
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
1085163
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 10/01/2001AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 03/11/2007AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 06/10/2012 as amended on 31 Oct 2019
Companies House
Company number 04138448 · Active
Contact on the register
01494771250 · office@chilternsociety.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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