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Registered charity · Luton

Luton Cultural Services Trust

Luton Cultural Services Trust is a registered charity (number 1122964) based in Luton, governed by 10 trustees. Latest income £3.6m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 18th October 2026.

Also known as Luton Culture (Charity Commission)

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £3.6m (2025)
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About

What it does
Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Luton
Website
www.culturetrust.com (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Luton Cultural Services Trust
Registered
2008

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£3.6m£3.8m
  • 2024£3.0m£3.5m
  • 2023£2.8m£4.3m
Earlier years
  • 2022£4.0m£3.6m
  • 2021£4.5m£3.3m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2023: Government grants 51%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

3.1 THE ADVANCEMENT AND SUPPORT OF EDUCATION, CULTURE, ARTS, HERITAGE AND HISTORY INCLUDING THE PROVISION OF LIBRARIES, MUSEUMS, GALLERIES, LEARNING AND INFORMATION CENTRES, ARCHIVES AND OTHER RELATED SERVICES; AND/OR3.2 THE PROVISION OR ASSISTANCE IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE SUCH FACILITIES BEING PROVIDED TO THE PUBLIC AT LARGE SAVE THAT SPECIAL FACILITIES MAY BE PROVIDED TO PERSONS WHO BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE,INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, POVERTY OR SOCIAL OR ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES MAY HAVE NEED OF SPECIAL FACILITIES OR SERVICES; AND/OR3.3 SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES BENEFICIAL TO THE PUBLIC CONSISTENT WITH THE OBJECTS ABOVE AS THE DIRECTORS SHALL IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINE

Grants received

19 grants · £3,610,662 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.

Top funders

  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £1,627,813 (8 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £1,566,811 (6 grants)
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport · £332,638
  • Department for Culture, Media and Sport · £44,000
  • Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation · £25,000

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £177,5132024-07-18
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £10,0002023-03-22
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport £332,6382022-10-13
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £18,2002022-04-01
  • Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation £25,0002022-02-09
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.

10 trustees on the board

4.3y median 4y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

9.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

Portfolio (1)

9
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 10Arts/culture/heritage/science 9Disability 1The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 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.

Arts and leisure 10Property 4Hospitality 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.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£3.6m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025
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.

0.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months

45 from 50 in 2021
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
1122964
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES (INCORPORATED) 17 SEPTEMBER 2007 AMENDED 18 FEBRUARY 2008 as amended on 06 Sep 2018
Companies House
Company number 06373488 · Active
Contact on the register
01582 878122 · info@culturetrust.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 18th October 2026
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