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Registered charity · Sittingbourne

The Christopher and Henry Oldfield Trust

  • 6 trustees
  • Income £334k (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage and 1 more
Where
Kent, Medway
Website
chotrust.org (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2014

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£334k£1.1m
  • 2024£214k£1.8m
  • 2023£181k£1.6m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.3m£2.6m
  • 2021£1.0m£1.6m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

TO FURTHER SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES (CHARITABLE UNDER ENGLISH LAW)AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME SEE FIT IN PARTICULAR BY MAKING GRANTS AND AWARDS TO INDIVIDUALS, CHARITABLE ORGANISATIONS, WHETHER REGISTERED, EXCEPTED OR EXEMPT, AND OTHER NOT-FOR-PROFIT ORGANISATIONS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY.

Board analysis for researchers

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.

6 trustees on the board

9y median 9.5y
average tenure
13y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

12.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (4)

Portfolio (2)

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 6General Charitable Purposes 6The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 6

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Finance 6Health and social care 2Arts and leisure 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£334k latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025
Qualified
Auditor's opinioniAuditor's opinionThe accounts_qualified flag on the latest filed annual return is True - the auditor qualified their opinion. A register flag, shown as filed.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1156496
Status
Registered
Governing document
TRUST DEED DATED 24/03/2014AS AMENDED ON 26 DEC 2017 as amended on 31 Jan 2025
Contact on the register
01795886155 · info@chotrust.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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