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Blenheim Palace Heritage Foundation

  • 5 trustees
  • Income £31m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th 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
Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Oxfordshire
Website
www.blenheimpalace.com (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Blenheim Palace Heritage Foundation
Registered
2016

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£31m£28m
  • 2024£29m£27m
  • 2023£22m£22m
Earlier years
  • 2022£27m£18m
  • 2021£18m£14m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 4% · Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

3.1 THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE :(A) RESTORING AND PRESERVING BLENHEIM FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT;(B) PROMOTING FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT THE STUDY AND APPRECIATION OF BLENHEIM AS APLACE OF HISTORIC AND ARCHITECTURAL INTEREST AND NATURAL BEAUTY; AND(C) DEVELOPING AND IMPROVING THE KNOWLEDGE, UNDERSTANDING AND PRACTICE OF THE ARTS, PRINCIPALLY THROUGH THE EXHIBITION AND PERFORMANCE OF ARTISTIC WORKS.3.2 THIS ARTICLE 3 MAY BE AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION BUT ONLY WITH THE PRIOR WRITTEN CONSENT OF THE COMMISSION.

Grants received

12 grants · £4,030,320 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

  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £3,290,061 (5 grants)
  • Garfield Weston Foundation · £350,000
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £249,811
  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology · £131,987 (4 grants)
  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy · £8,461

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £249,8112025-04-02
  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology £66,7462023-01-24
  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology £37,9732023-01-24
  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy £8,4612022-04-01
  • Garfield Weston Foundation £350,0002022-03-11
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.

5 trustees on the board

7.8y median 9y
average tenure
11y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

17.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (3)

Portfolio (2)

4
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 5Environment/conservation/heritage 5Economic/community Development/employment 1General Charitable Purposes 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.

Property 12Arts and leisure 9Construction 7

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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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£31.0m 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.

12.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 9.5 in 2021

538 from 320 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.
4%
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
1166164
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 09 FEB 2015AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 03 JAN 2017
Companies House
Company number 09430048 · Active
Contact on the register
01993810530
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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