Registered charity · Cumbria
The Sedbergh Book Town Literary Trust
- 7 trustees
- Income £11k (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, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Recreation
- Where
- Cumbria, Lancashire, North Yorkshire
- Website
- www.sedberghbooktown.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- The Sedbergh Book Town Literary Trust
- Registered
- 2006
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£11k£9k
- 2024£13k£12k
- 2023£5k£5k
Earlier years
- 2022£300£300
- 2021£0£300
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2024: Government grants 24%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
A TO PROMOTE MAINTAIN IMPROVE AND ADVANCE EDUCATION PARTICULARLY IN THE AREA OF LITERATURE AND THE WRITTEN WORD AND THE FORMULATION PREPARATION AND ESTABLISHMENT OF SCHEMES TO RENDER SUCH EDUCATION ACCESSIBLE TO THE PUBLIC.B TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE BY ENCOURAGING AN INTEREST IN AND UNDERSTANDING OF LITERATURE AND THE WRITTEN WORD AND BY ESTABLISHING EVENTS AND CLASSES FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE.C ANY OTHER PUBLIC CHARITABLE PURPOSES TENDING TO ENCOURAGE INTEREST IN LITERATURE WHICH MAY CONVENIENTLY BE PROMOTED IN COMBINATION WITH THE AFORESAID PURPOSE AND WHICH MAY INCLUDE ENCOURAGING SENIOR CITIZENS AND THE COMMUNITY IN GENERAL TO PARTICIPATE IN EVENTS AND CLASSES PROVIDED BY THE TRUST FOR THE PURPOSE OF RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE-TIME ACTIVITIES WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.D TO PROMOTE SUCH LITERARY EDUCATION TO ALL AGE GROUPS IN SURROUNDING RURAL COMMUNITIES BY PROVISION OF OUTREACH ACTIVITIES AND/OR CONVENIENT COMMUNITY TRANSPORT TO BRING SUCH POTENTIAL PARTICIPANTS INTO SEDBERGH TO ATTEND CLASSES OR EVENTS.
Grants received
3 grants · £125,550 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
- Northern Rock Foundation · £122,500 (2 grants)
- The National Lottery Community Fund · £3,050
Most recent
- The National Lottery Community Fund
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
- Michael Singleton Chair since 2020
- Carole Nelson
- Gerald Cotter since 2023
- Jean Briggs since 2022
- Kiara Turner since 2025
- Michael Clarke since 2024
- Steven Ewence since 2023
Trustees past 6 years
- Michael Singleton Chair since 2020
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (7)
- Michael Singleton Chair since 2020
- Carole Nelson
- Gerald Cotter since 2023
- Jean Briggs since 2022
- Kiara Turner since 2025
- Michael Clarke since 2024
- Steven Ewence since 2023
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
- 1115782
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 10 JULY 2006
- Companies House
- Company number 05871008 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 01539621770
- 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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