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Registered charity · Winchester

Hampshire Cultural Trust

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £9.1m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Hampshire
Website
www.hampshireculture.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Hampshire Cultural Trust
Registered
2014

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£9.1m£9.5m
  • 2024£9.3m£9.1m
  • 2023£8.4m£9.0m
Earlier years
  • 2022£7.7m£7.6m
  • 2021£6.0m£5.5m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 46%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTIVES (THE OBJECTS) ARE:(A) TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN AND IMPROVE THE PUBLIC'S UNDERSTANDING AND APPRECIATION OF THE ARTS, INCLUDING BY:(I) ESTABLISHING AND MAINTAINING MUSEUMS AND ART GALLERIES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC;(II) PROVIDING COMMUNITY ARTS CENTRES AND COMMUNITY ARTS PROGRAMMES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC; AND(III) BY SUCH OTHER MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES MAY DETERMINE; AND(B) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE HISTORY AND HERITAGE OF HAMPSHIRE AND THE WIDER AREA OF THE SOUTH OF ENGLAND, INCLUDING BY:(I) ACQUIRING, PRESERVING AND EXHIBITING, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, LANDS AND TENEMENTS (INCLUDING BUILDINGS) OF BEAUTY OR HISTORIC INTEREST WITH A VIEW TO EDUCATING THE PUBLIC IN THE HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF SUCH LANDS AND TENEMENTS IN THE HERITAGE OF THE NATION AND THE LOCAL AREA;(II) PRESERVING, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, FURNITURE, PICTURES AND CHATTELS OF ANY DESCRIPTION HAVING NATIONAL AND LOCAL HISTORIC OR ARTISTIC INTEREST WITH A VIEW TO EDUCATING THE PUBLIC IN THE HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF SUCH FURNITURE, PICTURES AND CHATTELS IN THE HERITAGE OF THE NATION AND THE LOCAL AREA; AND(III) BY SUCH OTHER MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES MAY DETERMINE.

Grants received

51 grants · £6,379,646 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 · £3,993,592 (25 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £1,658,742 (12 grants)
  • Paul Hamlyn Foundation · £461,000 (2 grants)
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport · £146,803 (4 grants)
  • Garfield Weston Foundation · £95,000 (2 grants)

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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

3.6y median 3.5y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

9.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (3)

9
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 3Environment/conservation/heritage 2The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 1The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 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 12Education 4Retail and trade 3

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£9.1m 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.

1.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 3.8 in 2021

244 from 214 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.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1158583
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 07/04/2014AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 09/07/2014AS REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 22/07/2014AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 11/09/2014 as amended on 25 Sep 2020 as amended on 24 Sep 2021 as amended on 30 Sep 2022
Companies House
Company number 08986225 · Active
Contact on the register
01962 396969 · cosec@hampshireculturaltrust.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
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