Registered charity (CIO) · Herefordshire

Chagos Conservation Trust

10 trustees
Income £40k (2025)

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

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About

What it does: General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where: Throughout England And Wales
Website: www.chagos-trust.org (opens in a new tab)
Registered: 2014

Income and spending

YearIncomeSpending
2025£40k£127k
2024£6k£95k
2023£17k£152k

Earlier years

2022£64k£146k
2021£21k£58k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 89%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE AND UNDERTAKE ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION, SCIENTIFIC AND HISTORICAL RESEARCH, AND ADVANCE EDUCATION CONCERNING THE CHAGOS ARCHIPELAGO.

Grants received

1 grant · £80,112 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

John Ellerman Foundation · £80,112

Most recent

John Ellerman Foundation £80,1122015-05-21

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

Christopher Stanley Davies Chair since 2013
Dr Bryan Wilson since 2023
Dr Colin Peter Clubbe since 2013
Dr John Turner since 2013
Dr Joshua Daniel Greatorex-Davies since 2024
Dr Kenneth Johnson since 2018
Dr Nicole Pozas Esteban since 2024
James Edmund Bruce Clarke since 2023
Jean-Francois Nellan since 2021
Steve Cole since 2017

7.1y median 6.5y

average tenure

13y

longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

Christopher Stanley Davies Chair since 2013
Dr Colin Peter Clubbe since 2013
Dr John Turner since 2013
Dr Kenneth Johnson since 2018
Steve Cole since 2017

7.9y

average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

Christopher Stanley Davies Chair since 2013
Dr Bryan Wilson since 2023
Dr John Turner since 2013
Dr Kenneth Johnson since 2018
Dr Nicole Pozas Esteban since 2024
James Edmund Bruce Clarke since 2023
Jean-Francois Nellan since 2021
Steve Cole since 2017

Portfolio (2)

Dr Colin Peter Clubbe since 2013
Dr Joshua Daniel Greatorex-Davies since 2024

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 10Environment/conservation/heritage 10General Charitable Purposes 9Arts/culture/heritage/science 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 2Professional services 1

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£40k latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025

Sources

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

Record details

Registered charity number: 1155836
Status: Registered
Governing document: CIO - Association Registered 18 Feb 2014 as amended on 05 Apr 2021
Contact on the register: 07865217413 · director@chagos-trust.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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