The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 6th September 2026

The Sylvia Short Educational Charity

Registered charity 1095722 Registered since 2003

Operates: Herefordshire

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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.

7 trustees on the board

4y median 4y
average tenure
12y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (5)

Portfolio (2)

1
company-linked trustees

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

Arts/culture/heritage/science 7Education/training 7General Charitable Purposes 1The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 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 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£76k latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

Connected through a shared trustee

Also active in the same field

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitehttps://sylviashort.org
Emailenquiries@sylviashort.org
Phone07908543948
AddressThorne Widgery Accountants, Wyevale Business Park, Wyevale Way, Stretton Sugwas, HEREFORD, HR4 7BS

Finances

£26,789 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2022£28,500£39,085
2023£58,034£26,595
2024£58,538£49,431
2025£76,188£53,705
2026£26,789£60,468

What it does

What

Education/trainingArts/culture/heritage/science

Who

Children/young People

How

Makes Grants To IndividualsMakes Grants To Organisations

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE EDUCATION BY THE MAKING OF GRANTS FOR FIELDWORK AND EXTRA MURAL STUDIES TO PERSONS WHO:(1) ARE UNDER THE AGE OF 19; AND(2) ARE IN NEED OF FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE; AND(3) ARE ATTENDING SCHOOL OR COLLEGE IN THE COUNTY OF HEREFORDSHIRE.

Governing document: SCHEME DATED 30 AUGUST 2002 AS AMENDED BY RESOLUTIONS OF THE TRUSTEES DATED 10 JUNE 2005 AND 10 DECEMBER 2010

Trustees (7)

7trustees
89median age
1aged 70+

Connected charities (2)

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