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Registered charity · South Yorkshire

Wentworth Woodhouse Preservation Trust

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £7.1m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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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, Environment/conservation/heritage, Economic/community Development/employment
Where
Rotherham
Website
wentworthwoodhouse.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Wentworth Woodhouse Preservation Trust
Registered
2014

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£7.1m£7.5m
  • 2024£7.2m£7.3m
  • 2023£6.0m£6.0m
Earlier years
  • 2022£4.4m£4.7m
  • 2021£3.9m£5.0m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 47%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO THE FOLLOWING:TO ACQUIRE AND PRESERVE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE NATION, THE WHOLE OR ANY PART OR PARTS OF THE BUILDINGS, GROUNDS AND SURROUNDING LAND KNOWN AS WENTWORTH WOODHOUSE IN THE METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF ROTHERHAM AND WHICH ARE OF SPECIAL HISTORICAL, ARCHITECTURAL AND CONSTRUCTIONAL HERITAGE AND INTEREST ("THE BUILDING") TOGETHER WITH SUCH FIXTURES, FITTINGS, FURNITURE, PICTURES AND OTHER CHATTELS ("THE CONTENTS") AS ARE CONTAINED WITHIN OR FORM PART OF THE BUILDING AND WHICH ARE IN THEIR OWN RIGHT OR BY ASSOCIATION WITH THE BUILDING OBJECTS OF PARTICULAR HISTORICAL, ARCHITECTURAL OR ARTISTIC INTEREST.

Grants received

41 grants · £15,430,542 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

  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £6,812,134 (7 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £5,874,217 (14 grants)
  • Department for Culture, Media and Sport · £1,295,553 (6 grants)
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport · £833,190 (4 grants)
  • Garfield Weston Foundation · £350,000 (3 grants)

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £247,7802025-02-12
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £132,8002024-09-09
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport £232,5292024-04-01
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £1,3472024-04-01
  • The National Archives £5,0002024-02-01
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.

4y median 4.5y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

12.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (4)

Portfolio (6)

9
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Education/training 10Arts/culture/heritage/science 8Environment/conservation/heritage 7Accommodation/housing 1Disability 1Economic/community Development/employment 1General Charitable Purposes 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.

Arts and leisure 10Manufacturing 10Professional services 6

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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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

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£7.1m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

0.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 0.9 in 2021

109 from 54 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1155374
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 10 DEC 2013 as amended on 20 Apr 2021
Companies House
Company number 08809187 · Active
Contact on the register
01226351161 · info@wentworthwoodhouse.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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