Registered charity · York
The Rowntree Society
- 7 trustees
- Income £219k (2025)
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
- Education/training, Environment/conservation/heritage
- Where
- Throughout England And Wales
- Website
- www.rowntreesociety.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- The Rowntree Society
- Registered
- 2004
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£219k£83k
- 2024£9k£61k
- 2023£12k£61k
Earlier years
- 2022£230k£70k
- 2021£419£43k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Charitable objects
THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN GENERAL AND THE INHABITANTS OF AND VISITORS TO YORK IN PARTICULAR IN THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE ROWNTREE FAMILY GENERALLY AND IN PARTICULAR JOSEPH AND SEEBOHM ROWNTREE IN THEIR PHILANTHROPIC WORK TO YORK THE SURROUNDING AREA AND SOCIETY IN GENERAL BY THE PROVISION OF GUIDED TOURS THE PUBLICATION OF LITERATURE AND BY ANY OTHER MEANS WHICH THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT WHICH ARE CHARITABLE AT LAW
Grants received
12 grants · £343,191 total360Giving 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
- Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust · £195,315 (3 grants)
- The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £71,600 (3 grants)
- JRSST-CT · £56,331 (4 grants)
- Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust · £14,945
- The National Lottery Community Fund · £5,000
Most recent
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.
7 trustees on the board
- Elizabeth Stewart Grierson Chair
- Eleanor Rhodes since 2024
- Jessica Louise Gray since 2022
- Maureen Andrea Grant since 2023
- Richard Jagger since 2014
- Stephen Edward Pittam
- Tina Caroline Walker since 2016
Trustees past 6 years
- Richard Jagger since 2014
- Tina Caroline Walker since 2016
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (6)
- Elizabeth Stewart Grierson Chair
- Eleanor Rhodes since 2024
- Jessica Louise Gray since 2022
- Maureen Andrea Grant since 2023
- Richard Jagger since 2014
- Tina Caroline Walker since 2016
Portfolio (1)
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
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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Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1105936
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 27 AUGUST 2004
- Companies House
- Company number 05217103 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 01904543384 · info@rowntreesociety.org.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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