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Registered charity · London

Duke of Lancaster's Foundation

  • 5 trustees
  • Income £2.3m (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, Religious Activities, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Registered
2001

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£2.3m£400k
  • 2024£672k£467k
  • 2023£576k£460k
Earlier years
  • 2022£531k£360k
  • 2021£468k£360k
Charitable objects

(A) THE MAINTENANCE OR INCREASE OF THE STIPENDS OF CLERGY WHO HAVE AT ANY TIME LIVED OR WORKED IN THE COUNTY PALATINE (MEANING THE COUNTY PALATINE OF LANCASTER AND ALL THE REST OF THE AREA OF LANCASHIRE GREATER MANCHESTER AND MERSEYSIDE) AND THE PROVISION OF ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE FOR THE BETTER SUPPORT OF THE CLERGY WHOSE LIVINGS ARE WITHIN THE GIFT OF THE DUKE OF LANCASTER; (B) THE MAINTENANCE OR PRESERVATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT OF ANY MONUMENT CASTLE OR OTHER PROPERTY OF HISTORICAL OR ARCHITECTURAL INTEREST EDUCATIVE VALUE OR ARTISTIC MERIT ON OR IN THE VICINITY OF LAND FORMING PART OF THE POSSESSIONS OF THE DUCHY AND INCLUDING ANY SUCH PROPERTY FORMING PART OF THE POSSESSIONS OF THE DUCHY NOTWITHSTANDING THAT IT FORMS SUCH PART; (C) THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH BY: (I) REPAIRING, IMPROVING, MAINTAINING AND PRESERVING THE FABRIC AND CONTENTS OF THE QUEEN'S CHAPEL OF THE SAVOY ("THE CHAPEL") AND ITS GROUNDS; (2) PROVIDING FOR THE CELEBRATION OF DIVINE SERVICE AT THE CHAPEL; AND (3) PROVIDING A STIPEND AND ACCOMMODATION FOR THE MINISTER OR MINISTERS FOR THE TIME BEING SERVING THE CHAPEL AND RELIEVING IN CASES OF FINANCIAL NEED MINISTERS OR RETIRED MINISTERS WHO HAVE SERVED AT THE CHAPEL; (D) THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC BY UNDERTAKING OR SUPPORTING CLASSES, SEMINARS, LECTURES, MUSICAL OR DRAMATIC PERFORMANCES OR OTHER ARTISTIC ACTIVITIES AT THE CHAPEL AND BY MEANS OF MAKING GRANTS TO OTHER BODIES OR INSTITUTIONS; (E) SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT.

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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

2.4y median 1y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure
1
trustees past 6 years
8.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (3)

Portfolio (2)

2
company-linked trustees

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

General Charitable Purposes 5Arts/culture/heritage/science 4Religious Activities 4Education/training 1Environment/conservation/heritage 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 2Professional services 2Construction 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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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£2.3m 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.

101.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 15.8 in 2021

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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
1085881
Status
Registered
Governing document
DECLARATION OF TRUST DATED 15 MARCH 2001 as amended on 12 Mar 2025 as amended on 12 Mar 2025
Contact on the register
02072691700 · info@duchyoflancaster.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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