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Registered charity (CIO) · Alton

Jane Austen's House Museum

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £2.0m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 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
Where
Hampshire
Website
www.janeaustens.house (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2014

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£2.0m£1.2m
  • 2024£1.0m£1.1m
  • 2023£603k£453k
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.2m£725k
  • 2021£481k£522k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2022: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND IN PARTICULAR THE STUDY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE, ESPECIALLY THE LIFE AND WORKS OF JANE AUSTEN. ACTIVITIES IN FURTHERANCE OF THIS WILL INCLUDE THE MAINTENANCE OF A MUSEUM FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN THE HOUSE AT CHAWTON, HAMPSHIRE THAT WAS JANE AUSTEN’S HOME FOR THE LAST EIGHT YEARS OF HER LIFE.

Grants received

6 grants · £509,400 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 · £509,400 (6 grants)

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £123,0002020-07-13
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £92,0002018-03-13
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £62,0002016-09-13
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £191,6002014-09-30
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £10,0002013-06-07
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.

9 trustees on the board

3.2y median 4y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

3.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

Portfolio (1)

1
company-linked trustees

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

Arts/culture/heritage/science 9Education/training 9Environment/conservation/heritage 9

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 1

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£2.0m latest income
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.

14.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 2.9 in 2021

18 from 15 in 2022
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
1156458
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - Foundation Registered 31 Mar 2014
Contact on the register
0142083262 · enquiries@janeaustens.house
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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