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Stansted Park Foundation

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £2.3m (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources

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, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
West Sussex
Website
www.stanstedpark.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Stansted Park Foundation
Registered
2003

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£2.3m£2.0m
  • 2024£2.0m£1.8m
  • 2023£1.9m£1.7m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.7m£1.5m
  • 2021£1.5m£1.4m
Charitable objects

3.1 THE PRESERVATION AND CONSERVATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT OF THE BUILDINGS AND THEIR GROUNDS AND SURROUNDING PARKLAND, FARMLAND AND FOREST KNOWN AS STANSTED PARK IN THE COUNTY OF SUSSEX (HEREINAFTER CALLED ‘STANSTED PARK’); 3.2 THE PRESERVATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT OF FURNITURE AND PICTURES AND CHATTELS OF ANY DESCRIPTION CONNECTED WITH STANSTED PARK, THE PONSONBY FAMILY OR OTHERWISE APPROPRIATE TO BE KEPT AT STANSTED PARK; 3.3 THE PROVISION AT STANSTED PARK OR SUCH PART OF IT AS SHALL BE APPROPRIATE IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND FOR THE PURPOSE OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE PERSONS FOR WHOM THE SAME ARE INTENDED OF FACILITIES FOR PHYSICAL RECREATION WHICH WILL BE AVAILABLE TO MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC AT LARGE; 3.4 THE FACILITATION AND ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE USE AND OCCUPATION OF THE WHOLE OR PART OF STANSTED PARK AND THE USE OF SUCH CHATTELS AS AFORESAID FOR CHARITABLE EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES OR FOR SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY DETERMINE; 3.5 THE FURTHERANCE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT OF SUCH OTHER PURPOSES WHICH ARE CHARITABLE UNDER THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT FROM TIME TO TIME.

Board analysis for researchers

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.

4.5y median 4.5y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

13.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

Portfolio (2)

6
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 8Arts/culture/heritage/science 7Environment/conservation/heritage 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.

Business services 8Finance 7Arts and leisure 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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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£2.0m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2023 and 2024
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.

4.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 2.0 in 2020

16 from 19 in 2020
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
1101251
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 22 SEP 2003NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 11 FEB 2005AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 07 JUN 2017
Companies House
Company number 04907189 · Active
Contact on the register
02392412265 · enquiry@stanstedpark.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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