The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 6th September 2026

Widecombe History Group

Registered charity 1144684 Registered since 2011

Operates: Devon

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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.

4 trustees on the board

9y median 8y
average tenure
13y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

10.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (3)

Portfolio (1)

1
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 4Amateur Sport 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.

Health and social care 1

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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.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£4k latest income

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

Connected through a shared trustee

Also active in the same field

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Emailwidecombehistorygroup@gmail.com
Phone01364621520
AddressDunstone Methodist Church, Lady Meadow Terrace, Widecombe in the Moor, Newton Abbot, Devon, TQ13 7TH

Finances

£4,182 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2022£1,660£6,322
2023£3,483£2,821
2024£4,291£3,623
2025£3,781£5,775
2026£4,182£4,324

What it does

What

Arts/culture/heritage/science

Who

The General Public/mankind

How

Provides Services

Charitable objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN ALL MATTERS HISTORICAL OR ALLIED NATURE, AND IN PARTICULAR THOSE ARISING IN WIDECOMBE PARISH AND THE SURROUNDING AREA AND IN DOING SO TO PRESERVE AND ARCHIVE MATERIAL OF HISTORICAL INTEREST, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY:A) CREATING AND MAINTAINING A HERITAGE CENTRE FOR THE PURPOSE OF PRESENTING ITEMS FOR LOCAL EXHIBITIONB) PROMOTING, RESEARCHING AND RECORDING LOCAL HISTORY;C) ACTING AS CUSTODIANS OF HISTORICAL MATERIAL PERTAINING TO WIDECOMBE PARISH LOCAL HISTORY BY COLLECTING TOGETHER, CONSERVING AND ARCHIVING ALL SUCH MATERIAL AND ANY OTHER APPROPRIATE HISTORICAL MATERIAL, FROM WHEREVER IT MAY ORIGINATE;D) PROVIDING ACCESS TO ARCHIVES TO THE PUBLIC FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES THROUGH VARIOUS MEANS, INCLUDING, INTER ALIA, A HERITAGE CENTRE;E) UNDERTAKING OR PROVIDING HISTORICAL RESEARCH PROJECTS, EXHIBITIONS, BOOKS, THE INTERNET, ARTEFACT RESTORATION, WALKS, OUTINGS, AND A REGULAR PROGRAMME OF SPEAKERS AND DISCUSSION EVENINGS;F) RECORDING THE LIVING HISTORY OF THE WHG THROUGH PHOTOGRAPHS, WRITING, AUDIO AND OTHER MEDIA;G) UNDERTAKING SUCH OTHER ACTIVITIES AS MAY BE DEEMED NECESSARY

Governing document: CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 04/02/2010AS AMENDED ON 02/11/2011

Trustees (4)

4trustees
77median age
1aged 70+

Connected charities (1)

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