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Registered charity · Eastbourne

Towner

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £3.6m (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
Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Throughout England
Website
www.townereastbourne.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Towner
Registered
2014

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£3.6m£2.6m
  • 2024£3.7m£3.3m
  • 2023£3.5m£2.4m
Earlier years
  • 2022£2.6m£1.8m
  • 2021£1.9m£1.3m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 14% · Government grants 21%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE COMPANY HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED FOR PUBLIC BENEFIT TO:- ADVANCE THE EDUCATION, ENJOYMENT AND APPRECIATION OF THE PUBLIC AT LARGE OF THE ARTS BY THE ESTABLISHMENT AND/OR MAINTENANCE OF A MUSEUM AND/OR ART GALLERY; AND/OR- WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE ABOVE, TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION, ENJOYMENT AND APPRECIATION OF THE PUBLIC AT LARGE OF THE ARTS BY THE MAINTENANCE OF THE TOWNER IN EASTBOURNE; AND/OR- ADVANCE THE EDUCATION, ENJOYMENT AND APPRECIATION OF THE PUBLIC AT LARGE OF THE ARTS THROUGH TOWNER?S ART COLLECTION; AND/OR- PURSUE SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES ANALOGOUS TO ANY OF THE ABOVE AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION SHALL DETERMINE (TOGETHER THE ?OBJECTS?).

Grants received

10 grants · £2,739,071 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.

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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

2.7y median 1.5y
average tenure
12y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

9.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

Portfolio (2)

10
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 10Environment/conservation/heritage 2Education/training 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.

Education 10Arts and leisure 5Construction 5

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£3.6m latest income · income exceeded spending 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.

5.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 6.4 in 2021

54 from 46 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.
36%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1156762
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 05 DEC 2013 as amended on 10 Mar 2025
Companies House
Company number 08803625 · Active
Contact on the register
01323 434670 · towner@townereastbourne.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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