Registered charity · Colchester
Victor Batte LAY Foundation
- 6 trustees
- Income £23k (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
- Essex
- Website
- www.vblfcollection.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Victor Batte LAY Foundation
- Registered
- 2012
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£23k£26k
- 2024£60k£85k
- 2023£81k£114k
Earlier years
- 2022£84k£74k
- 2021£161k£118k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2022: Government grants 13%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
1.THE PROVISION AND MAINTENANCE OF THE LAND AND BUILDINGS FROM TIME TO TIME OWNED BY THE CHARITY AS A MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY FOR THE EXHIBITION OF A COLLECTION OR COLLECTIONS OF OBJECTS OF ANTIQUARIAN INTEREST, ART OR SCIENCE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF COLCHESTER AND OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC. 2.THE PROMOTION OF SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES HAVING OBJECTS CONSONANT WITH THE FOREGOING AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT.
Grants received
5 grants · £71,454 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
- Garfield Weston Foundation · £55,000 (2 grants)
- The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £9,954
- Essex Community Foundation · £6,500 (2 grants)
Most recent
- The National Lottery Heritage Fund
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.
6 trustees on the board
- Hannah Katriena Drost Chair since 2025
- Benjamin Paites since 2021
- Julia Pauline Stephen since 2018
- Nagasura Bacon since 2023
- Rosemary Catherine Leak since 2025
- Susan Roche since 2023
Trustees past 6 years
- Julia Pauline Stephen since 2018
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (5)
- Hannah Katriena Drost Chair since 2025
- Benjamin Paites since 2021
- Nagasura Bacon since 2023
- Rosemary Catherine Leak since 2025
- Susan Roche since 2023
Portfolio (1)
- Julia Pauline Stephen since 2018
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
- Narrow spread of causes across the board
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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Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1149656
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 15 JUL 2011 as amended on 07 Oct 2019
- Companies House
- Company number 07706484 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 07541311027 · info@theminories.org
- 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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