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Registered charity · Lewes

The Charleston Trust (Bloomsbury in Sussex)

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £2.7m (2024)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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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
East Sussex
Website
www.charleston.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Charleston Trust (Bloomsbury in Sussex)
Registered
2004

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£2.7m£3.5m
  • 2023£3.0m£3.9m
  • 2022£3.6m£3.2m
Earlier years
  • 2021£2.5m£2.4m
  • 2020£2.1m£1.3m

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Income source mix, 2023: Government grants 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

(1) TO ACQUIRE PROTECT AND IMPROVE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC GENERALLY THE LAND AND BUILDINGS LISTED IN THE DEEDS OF CHARLESTON FARMHOUSE FIRLE EAST SUSSEX BUT KNOWN AS CHARLESTON ITS CHARACTER AMENITIES AND CONTENTS AND ANY ADJACENT PROPERTY AND(2) TO PROMOTE THE MAINTENANCE IMPROVEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE UNDERSTANDING AND APPRECIATION OF THE ART ARCHITECTURE AND CONTENTS OF CHARLESTON AND ITS HISTORICAL LITERARY AND ARTISTIC CONNECTIONS; AND(3) TO ENCOURAGE AND PROMOTE APPRECIATION AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE ARTS.

Grants received

10 grants · £4,981,538 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.

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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

3.7y median 4y
average tenure
10y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

11.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

Portfolio (5)

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 11Arts/culture/heritage/science 10General Charitable Purposes 9Environment/conservation/heritage 3

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 25Tech and media 25Retail and trade 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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£2.7m latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

0.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 4.3 in 2020

88 from 53 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
1107313
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 23/08/2004NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 06/10/2014 as amended on 10 May 2022
Companies House
Company number 05212725 · Active
Contact on the register
01323811626 · c.ryder@charleston.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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