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Registered charity · West Sussex

The Edward James Foundation Limited

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £15m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 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, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Throughout England
Website
www.westdean.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Edward James Foundation Limited
Registered
2008

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£15m£19m
  • 2024£14m£18m
  • 2023£14m£18m
Earlier years
  • 2022£13m£16m
  • 2021£8.0m£10m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2021: Government grants 2%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO ADVANCE SUCH CHARITABLE EDUCATION PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION THINK FIT IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION):(A) THE DELIVERY OF EDUCATION THROUGH WEST DEAN COLLEGE;(B) PROVIDED THAT THE ACTIVITY AT (A) ABOVE HAS (IN THE OPINION OF THE TRUSTEES) BEEN FULFILLED THEN IN THE TRUSTEES DISCRETION, AS A SECONDARY ACTIVITY, PRESERVING (IN WHOLE OR IN PART) THE WEST DEAM ESTATE TO THE EXTENT THAT THE SAID ESTATE CONSISTS OF LAND, BUILDINGS AND PHYSICAL OR NATURAL ENVIRONMENT, WHICH IS OF HISTORICAL, ARCHITECTURAL, ENVIRONMENTAL OR SCIENTIFIC IMPORTANCE.

Grants received

2 grants · £103,600 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

Most recent

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.

9 trustees on the board

6.6y median 4y
average tenure
12y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

10.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

Portfolio (1)

7
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Arts/culture/heritage/science 9Education/training 9Environment/conservation/heritage 8Religious Activities 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.

Education 9Arts and leisure 2Health and social care 1

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£13.9m 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.

5.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 0.1 in 2020

279 from 229 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
1126084
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 04/09/2008AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 28/11/2012AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 11 DEC 2018 as amended on 19 Dec 2018
Companies House
Company number 06689362 · Active
Contact on the register
01243818257 · diane.goodman@westdean.ac.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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