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Registered charity · East Sussex

The Great Dixter Charitable Trust

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £2.6m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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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, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
East Sussex
Website
www.greatdixter.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Great Dixter Charitable Trust
Registered
2010

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£2.6m£2.4m
  • 2024£2.2m£2.2m
  • 2023£2.1m£2.0m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.8m£1.8m
  • 2021£1.7m£1.5m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

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

Charitable objects

2.1 TO CONSERVE, MAINTAIN, AND ENRICH THE GARDEN (IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LONG HONOURED GARDENING SPIRIT AND TRADITION OF THE SETTLOR AS EVIDENCED IN THE CONSIDERABLE BODY OF HORTICULTURAL LITERATURE PRODUCED AND PUBLISHED BY THE SETTLOR THROUGHOUT HIS WORKING LIFE) FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC;2.2 TO CONSERVE, MAINTAIN AND RESTORE THE HOUSE (IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONSERVATION PRINCIPLES AND POLICIES APPLICABLE THERETO AS A GRADE I LISTED AND REGISTERED HERITAGE PROPERTY), AND WHERE APPLICABLE GREAT DIXTER IN ITS ENTIRETY FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC;2.3 TO MANAGE THE WOODLANDS, MEADOWS AND FIELDS IN A MANNER THAT ENCOURAGES THEIR BIODIVERSITY AND SERVES THE OBJECTS IN CLAUSES 2.1 AND 2.2 ABOVE;2.4 TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN HORTICULTURE AND BIO-DIVERSITY, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOTEXCLUSIVELY BY CONSERVING, CATALOGUING, MAINTAINING AND MAKING ACCESSIBLE TO THEPUBLIC THE EXTENSIVE ARCHIVAL MATERIAL IN THE HOUSE RELATING TO THE HOUSE, THE GARDEN AND THE SETTLOR'S FAMILY FOR ITS HERITAGE AND HISTORICAL VALUE.

Grants received

9 grants · £5,128,700 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

  • LUND TRUST £500,0002024-02-12
  • LUND TRUST £2,5002023-11-23
  • Cornwall Community Foundation £10,0002022-04-11
  • LUND TRUST £300,0002021-02-16
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £103,7002020-08-17
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.

11 trustees on the board

8.6y median 7y
average tenure
14y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

9.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (2)

Portfolio (9)

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 11Environment/conservation/heritage 11Arts/culture/heritage/science 2

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 12Education 1Manufacturing 1

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£2.6m latest income · income exceeded spending 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.

6.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 4.7 in 2021

65 from 44 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
1134948
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED ON 9 MARCH 2010
Companies House
Company number 07181964 · Active
Contact on the register
01797254048 · office@greatdixter.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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