Registered charity · Norwich
Curious Directive
- 5 trustees
- Income £196k (2025)
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
- Throughout England And Wales
- Website
- www.curiousdirective.com (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Curious Directive
- Registered
- 2011
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£196k£191k
- 2024£369k£312k
- 2023£307k£258k
Earlier years
- 2022£524k£449k
- 2021£274k£253k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 0% · Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN, IMPROVE AND ADVANCE EDUCATION BY THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE ARTS INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE ARTS OF DRAMA, MIME, DANCE, SINGING AND MUSIC.
Grants received
5 grants · £110,520 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
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £49,000
- Garfield Weston Foundation · £35,000 (2 grants)
- Department for Science, Innovation and Technology · £23,520
- Fenton Arts Trust · £3,000
Most recent
- Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
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
- Kumiko Elizabeth Mendl Chair since 2020
- Joana Gana since 2022
- Ollie Hester since 2020
- Petia Tzanova since 2022
- Tiernan Fitzgibbon since 2020
Trustees past 6 years
- Kumiko Elizabeth Mendl Chair since 2020
- Ollie Hester since 2020
- Tiernan Fitzgibbon since 2020
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (4)
- Joana Gana since 2022
- Ollie Hester since 2020
- Petia Tzanova since 2022
- Tiernan Fitzgibbon since 2020
Portfolio (1)
- Kumiko Elizabeth Mendl Chair since 2020
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.
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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1144025
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 17/06/2010AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 30 JUN 2016
- Companies House
- Company number 07287464 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 01603614425 · info@curiousdirective.com
- 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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