Registered charity · Chester
UK Storyhouse Limited
To promote the presentation and development of arts and culture in Chester District and the surrounding area.
- 12 trustees
- Income £7.6m (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- David Jnr WatsonChair · since 2022
- Jack Thomas MitchellTrustee · since 2025
- John William Grout GrTrustee · since 2022
- Kirsty LoweTrustee · since 2023
- Lauren Faith GreenTrustee · since 2025
- Maria PernyTrustee · since 2022
- Mark David RoughleyTrustee · since 2025
- Paul Michael DaviesTrustee · since 2025
- Richard WattsTrustee · since 2023
- Ryan GuestTrustee · since 2024
- Sioned Mererid JonesTrustee · since 2022
- Vidya VenugopalTrustee · since 2022
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, Economic/community Development/employment
- Where
- Cheshire East, Cheshire West & Chester
- Website
- www.storyhouse.com (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- UK Storyhouse Limited
- Registered
- 2007
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£7.6m£7.5m
- 2024£7.1m£7.5m
- 2023£6.9m£7.5m
Earlier years
- 2022£6.4m£5.7m
- 2021£4.4m£3.5m
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 15%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
To promote the presentation and development of arts and culture in Chester District and the surrounding area.
Grants received
12 grants · £1,328,343 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
- Westminster Foundation · £781,610 (7 grants)
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £503,015 (2 grants)
- Garfield Weston Foundation · £20,000
- Cheshire Community Foundation · £15,000
- Steve Morgan Foundation · £8,718
Most recent
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.
12 trustees on the board
- David Jnr Watson Chair since 2022
- Jack Thomas Mitchell since 2025
- John William Grout Gr since 2022
- Kirsty Lowe since 2023
- Lauren Faith Green since 2025
- Maria Perny since 2022
- Mark David Roughley since 2025
- Paul Michael Davies since 2025
- Richard Watts since 2023
- Ryan Guest since 2024
- Sioned Mererid Jones since 2022
- Vidya Venugopal since 2022
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (11)
- David Jnr Watson Chair since 2022
- Jack Thomas Mitchell since 2025
- John William Grout Gr since 2022
- Kirsty Lowe since 2023
- Lauren Faith Green since 2025
- Maria Perny since 2022
- Mark David Roughley since 2025
- Paul Michael Davies since 2025
- Richard Watts since 2023
- Ryan Guest since 2024
- Vidya Venugopal since 2022
Portfolio (1)
- Sioned Mererid Jones since 2022
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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
1.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 3.6 in 2021
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1121007
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 19 AUGUST 2005. as amended on 03 Apr 2018 as amended on 03 Apr 2018 as amended on 04 Oct 2022 as amended on 02 Apr 2025
- Companies House
- Company number 05541255 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 01244409113 · info@storyhouse.com
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 20th 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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