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Downside Abbey General Trust
- 4 trustees
- Income £1.3m (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th 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, Education/training, Religious Activities, Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Where
- Devon, Norfolk, Somerset, Suffolk and more
- Website
- www.downsideabbey.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Downside Abbey General Trust
- Registered
- 2014
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£1.3m£2.9m
- 2024£1.4m£1.7m
- 2023£1.5m£1.5m
Earlier years
- 2022£1.2m£4.9m
- 2021£1.9m£1.1m
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2025: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE TO ADVANCE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES WHETHER OR NOT CONNECTED TO THE ROMAN CATHOLIC RELIGION WHICH THE TRUSTEES WITH THE CONSENT OF THE ABBOT SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT
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.
4 trustees on the board
- Rev Marc David Brumwell OSB since 2022
- Rev Martin Joseph Blanco Hood OSB since 2022
- Richard Bevan since 2022
- Right Rev Nicholas Philip Wetz OSB since 2022
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (2)
- Richard Bevan since 2022
- Right Rev Nicholas Philip Wetz OSB since 2022
Portfolio (2)
- Rev Marc David Brumwell OSB since 2022
- Rev Martin Joseph Blanco Hood OSB since 2022
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
77.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 120.0 in 2021
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1158507
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 10 JUL 2014
- Companies House
- Company number 09124570 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 01749 717116 · abbey@downsideabbey.co.uk
- 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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