Registered charity · Dorset
The Othona Community
- 10 trustees
- Income £454k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Mark Alexander James RingroseChair · since 2024
- Christina WilsonTrustee · since 2022
- Christopher Martin JonesTrustee · since 2022
- Daniel Charles DutfieldTrustee · since 2021
- Jane Daphne PearseTrustee · since 2023
- Maria FreemanTrustee · since 2025
- Marie MartinTrustee · since 2025
- Michael David HuntTrustee · since 2021
- Paul Geoffrey SimonTrustee · since 2026
- Stephen William BarnesTrustee · since 2020
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- Education/training, Religious Activities, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage and 2 more
- Where
- Throughout England
- Website
- www.othonaessex.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- The Othona Community
- Registered
- 2013
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£454k£441k
- 2024£399k£361k
- 2023£386k£328k
Earlier years
- 2022£300k£278k
- 2021£225k£205k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2022: Government grants 11%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
1. TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE PROVISION OF RETREATS AND OTHER EDUCATIVE ACTIVITIES.2. THE PROMOTION OF RELIGIOUS HARMONY FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY PROMOTING KNOWLEDGE AND MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING AND RESPECT OF THE BELIEFS AND PRACTICES OF DIFFERENT RELIGIOUS FAITHS.
Grants received
1 grant · £10,000 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
- The National Lottery Community Fund · £10,000
Most recent
- The National Lottery Community 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.
10 trustees on the board
- Mark Alexander James Ringrose Chair since 2024
- Christina Wilson since 2022
- Christopher Martin Jones since 2022
- Daniel Charles Dutfield since 2021
- Jane Daphne Pearse since 2023
- Maria Freeman since 2025
- Marie Martin since 2025
- Michael David Hunt since 2021
- Paul Geoffrey Simon since 2026
- Stephen William Barnes since 2020
Trustees past 6 years
- Stephen William Barnes since 2020
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (1)
- Michael David Hunt since 2021
Portfolio (9)
- Mark Alexander James Ringrose Chair since 2024
- Christina Wilson since 2022
- Christopher Martin Jones since 2022
- Daniel Charles Dutfield since 2021
- Jane Daphne Pearse since 2023
- Maria Freeman since 2025
- Marie Martin since 2025
- Paul Geoffrey Simon since 2026
- Stephen William Barnes 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.
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
- 1154204
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 14 SEP 2012AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 11/10/2013 as amended on 22 Jul 2025
- Companies House
- Company number 08215892 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 01621776564 · communitysecretary@othona.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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