Registered charity · Hastings
Hastings Contemporary
- 10 trustees
- Income £1.3m (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Aderonke Phillips-PakenhamTrustee · since 2021
- Benjamin UrbanTrustee · since 2025
- Clara CourtauldTrustee · since 2024
- David Maurice RogersTrustee · since 2024
- Kay Elizabeth Sandford-BealTrustee · since 2024
- Patricia Mary Nathalie MillettTrustee · since 2022
- Peter Donald James ChowneyTrustee · since 2022
- Prof Andrew Charles Robert Jean-Baptiste Corbett-NolanTrustee · since 2019
- Professor Bruce BrownTrustee · since 2024
- Professor Michael John Godfrey FarthingTrustee · since 2024
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
- East Sussex
- Website
- hastingscontemporary.org (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Hastings Contemporary
- Registered
- 2013
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£1.3m£1.1m
- 2024£804k£1.1m
- 2023£709k£930k
Earlier years
- 2022£921k£651k
- 2021£841k£489k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 12%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE VISUAL ARTS BY SUPPORTING THE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES OF HASTINGS CONTEMPORARY AND SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES AND CAUSES AS ARE ASSOCIATED WITH OR COMPLIMENTARY TO THE ACTIVITIES OF HASTINGS CONTEMPORARY.
Grants received
7 grants · £774,802 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 · £339,830 (2 grants)
- The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £249,972
- Garfield Weston Foundation · £180,000 (3 grants)
- LUND TRUST · £5,000
Most recent
- The National Lottery Heritage Fund
- LUND TRUST
- 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.
10 trustees on the board
- Aderonke Phillips-Pakenham since 2021
- Benjamin Urban since 2025
- Clara Courtauld since 2024
- David Maurice Rogers since 2024
- Kay Elizabeth Sandford-Beal since 2024
- Patricia Mary Nathalie Millett since 2022
- Peter Donald James Chowney since 2022
- Prof Andrew Charles Robert Jean-Baptiste Corbett-Nolan since 2019
- Professor Bruce Brown since 2024
- Professor Michael John Godfrey Farthing since 2024
Trustees past 6 years
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (7)
- Aderonke Phillips-Pakenham since 2021
- Benjamin Urban since 2025
- Clara Courtauld since 2024
- Kay Elizabeth Sandford-Beal since 2024
- Peter Donald James Chowney since 2022
- Professor Bruce Brown since 2024
- Professor Michael John Godfrey Farthing since 2024
Portfolio (3)
- David Maurice Rogers since 2024
- Patricia Mary Nathalie Millett since 2022
- Prof Andrew Charles Robert Jean-Baptiste Corbett-Nolan since 2019
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
1.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 0.0 in 2021
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1150383
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 06 SEP 2012AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 17 AUG 2016 as amended on 19 Dec 2018 as amended on 12 Jun 2019 as amended on 27 Jun 2019
- Companies House
- Company number 08204873 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 01424728377 · info@hastingscontemporary.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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