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Registered charity · Glastonbury

Glastonbury Abbey

Glastonbury Abbey is a registered charity (number 1129263) based in Glastonbury, governed by 10 trustees and chaired by David Odgers since 2018. Latest income £1.9m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 18th October 2026.

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £1.9m (2025)
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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Education/training, Religious Activities, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Somerset
Website
www.glastonburyabbey.com (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Glastonbury Abbey
Registered
2009

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.9m£2.2m
  • 2024£2.9m£2.3m
  • 2023£2.0m£1.7m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.5m£1.4m
  • 2021£1.4m£1.0m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

1 TO PRESERVE THE FABRIC AND THE GROUNDS OF GLASTONBURY ABBEY RUINS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT; AND2 TO USE GLASTONBURY ABBEY TO ADVANCE RELIGION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE DOCTRINES OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND; AND3 TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC IN THE HISTORIC AND RELIGIOUS IMPORTANCE OF GLASTONBURY ABBEY (INCLUDING THE SKILLS AND LEARNING ASSOCIATED WITH IT).

Grants received

8 grants · £1,551,732 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

  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £839,338 (3 grants)
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £602,490 (3 grants)
  • Garfield Weston Foundation · £100,000
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £9,904

Most recent

  • Garfield Weston Foundation £100,0002023-06-26
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £374,9902023-03-24
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £10,0002022-05-11
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £339,5002020-10-14
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £144,3382020-10-14
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

4.1y median 2y
average tenure
12y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

14y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (3)

10
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 10Religious Activities 10Arts/culture/heritage/science 8Accommodation/housing 1General Charitable Purposes 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 17Professional services 4Education 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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£2.9m latest income · income exceeded spending 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.

7.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 13.6 in 2020

41 from 40 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
1129263
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 8 APRIL 2009 as amended on 27 Jul 2023
Companies House
Company number 06873912 · Active
Contact on the register
01458832267 · info@glastonburyabbey.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 18th October 2026
Labels
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