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Serious Trust Limited

  • 6 trustees
  • Income £90k (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

Also 2 organisations acting as trustee: Ian Peter Latham, Miranda Isobel Johnson.

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.serious.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Serious Trust Limited
Registered
2012

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£90k£90k
  • 2024£16k£65k
  • 2023£71k£49k
Earlier years
  • 2022£54k£27k
  • 2021£125k£169k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE: (1) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO PUBLIC APPRECIATION OF MUSIC IN ALL ITS FORMS, PROMOTING A KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF MUSIC AND FOSTERING THE PRACTICE OF MUSIC ARTISTS. (2) TO ADVANCE THE ARTS AND CULTURE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC, PARTICULARLY (BUT NOT LIMITED TO) BY PROMOTING AND FACILITATING ACCESS TO AND PERFORMANCES OF MUSIC.

Grants received

4 grants · £80,000 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

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.

4 trustees on the board

5.5y median 5y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

18.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (2)

Portfolio (2)

4
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 4Education/training 4Overseas Aid/famine Relief 1The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 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.

Education 7Health and social care 4Dormant 2

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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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£90k latest income

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1145535
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 15 DEC 2011AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 13/03/2012
Companies House
Company number 07883912 · Active
Contact on the register
02073241880
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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