Registered charity · London
The Christopher Tower Collection
- 5 trustees
- Income £3k (2024)
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
- Where
- Essex
- Website
- www.ashridge.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 2008
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2024£3k£8k
- 2023£416£0
- 2022£344£224
Earlier years
- 2021£348£0
- 2020£595£0
Income trend, 2020 to 2024.
Charitable objects
THE TRUSTEES SHALL HOLD THE CAPITAL AND INCOME OF THE TRUST FUND UPON TRUST TO APPLY THEINCOME, AND ALL OR SUCH PART OR PARTS OF THE CAPITAL, AT SUCH TIME OR TIMES AND IN SUCH MANNERAS THE TRUSTEES MAY IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION THINK FIT FOR THE FOLLOWING OBJECTS (THE'OBJECTS'):(A) TO PRESERVE AND DISPLAY FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC WORKS OF ART AND OTHERITEMS THAT ARE OF ARTISTIC, HISTORICAL OR SOCIOLOGICAL INTEREST, INCLUDING IN PARTICULAR SUCHOF THOSE ITEMS THAT ARE SPECIFIED IN THE SECOND SCHEDULE AS MAY BE ADDED TO THETRUST FUND (ALL SUCH ITEMS SHALL BE REFERRED TO IN THIS CLAUSE AS THE 'COLLECTION');(B) TO ORGANISE THE PROVISION OF PUBLIC ACCESS TO THE COLLECTION AND TO ENCOURAGE ANDASSIST SUCH PUBLIC ACCESS; AND(C) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC, PARTICULARLY BY PROMOTING THE STUDY OF THECOLLECTION BY THE PUBLIC AND ENCOURAGING THE INCREASE OF THEIR UNDERSTANDING ANDAPPRECIATION OF MATTERS OF HISTORIC, ARTISTIC AND SOCIOLOGICAL INTEREST CONNECTED WITHTHE COLLECTION.3.2 THE TRUSTEES MAY IN THEIR DISCRETION, FOR THE PERIOD OF 21 YEARS FROM THE DATE OF THIS DEED,INSTEAD OF APPLYING THE INCOME OF THE CHARITY IN ANY YEAR, ACCUMULATE ALL OR ANY PART OF SUCHINCOME AT COMPOUND INTEREST BY INVESTING THE SAME, AND THE RESULTING INCOME, IN ANYINVESTMENTS AUTHORISED BY THIS DEED OR BY LAW AS AN ACCRETION TO AND AS PART OF THE CAPITAL OFTHE CHARITY, WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THEIR RIGHT TO APPLY THE WHOLE OR ANY PART OF SUCH ACCUMULATEDINCOME IN ANY SUBSEQUENT YEAR AS IF THE SAME WERE INCOME OF THE CHARITY ARISING IN THE THENCURRENT YEAR.
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.
5 trustees on the board
- Alexander Tower since 2025
- IAN Tower
- Rupert Tower Kinglake
- Richard Tower since 2025
- William Tower
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (5)
- Alexander Tower since 2025
- IAN Tower
- Rupert Tower Kinglake
- Richard Tower since 2025
- William Tower
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Gaps to watch
- No commercial or business experience on the board
- Narrow spread of causes across the board
- Mostly recent joiners - limited long-term continuity
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
- 1126077
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- TRUST DEED DATED 6 OCTOBER 2006
- Contact on the register
- 02074333640 · contact@ashridge.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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