Registered charity · Cambridgeshire
The Countryside Regeneration Trust
- 9 trustees
- Income £1.5m (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- David MillsTrustee · since 2025
- Graham GirlingTrustee · since 2025
- John ArmstrongTrustee · since 2023
- Nicholas WattsTrustee · since 2025
- Rosalyn Mary HicksTrustee · since 2024
- Susan LakeTrustee · since 2023
- Teona Dorrien-SmithTrustee · since 2024
- Timothy ScottTrustee · since 2019
- William CrossTrustee · since 2025
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
- Dorset, Kirklees, Cambridgeshire, East Sussex and more
- Website
- www.thecrt.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- The Countryside Regeneration Trust LTD
- Registered
- 2011
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£1.5m£1.9m
- 2024£1.4m£1.6m
- 2023£2.7m£1.6m
Earlier years
- 2022£4.2m£1.8m
- 2021£591k£1.6m
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 3%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
(A) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC AT LARGE IN THE CONDUCT OF FARMING AND FORESTRY OPERATIONS IN HARMONY WITH THE PRESERVATION CONSERVATION RESTORATION MAINTENANCE AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE AESTHETIC APPEARANCE OF THE RURAL LANDSCAPE AND IN PARTICULAR OF AGRICULTURAL LAND AND WOODLAND (B) TO PROVIDE AND FOSTER THE PROVISION BY OTHERS OF NATURAL COUNTRYSIDE HABITATS WITHIN WORKING FARMS AND COMMERCIAL WOODLAND IN WHICH THE WIDEST POSSIBLE VARIETY OF WILD ANIMAL BIRD AQUATIC AND PLANT LIFE MAY FLOURISH.
Grants received
13 grants · £502,468 total360Giving 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 · £372,000
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · £98,871 (8 grants)
- Garfield Weston Foundation · £20,000
- Cambridgeshire Community Foundation · £6,597
- Community Foundation for Surrey · £5,000 (2 grants)
Most recent
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
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
- David Mills since 2025
- Graham Girling since 2025
- John Armstrong since 2023
- Nicholas Watts since 2025
- Rosalyn Mary Hicks since 2024
- Susan Lake since 2023
- Teona Dorrien-Smith since 2024
- Timothy Scott since 2019
- William Cross since 2025
Trustees past 6 years
- Timothy Scott since 2019
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (7)
- David Mills since 2025
- Graham Girling since 2025
- John Armstrong since 2023
- Rosalyn Mary Hicks since 2024
- Susan Lake since 2023
- Timothy Scott since 2019
- William Cross since 2025
Portfolio (2)
- Nicholas Watts since 2025
- Teona Dorrien-Smith since 2024
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
14.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 4.3 in 2021
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1142122
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 20/07/2010 as amended on 17 Mar 2022 as amended on 03 Jul 2024 as amended on 25 Feb 2009 as amended on 25 Feb 2025
- Companies House
- Company number 07320026 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 01223 651215 · info@thecrt.co.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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