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Registered charity · Derby

John Smedley Archive Charitable Trust

  • 3 trustees
  • Income £2k (2025)
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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
Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Other Charitable Purposes
Where
Derbyshire
Linked company
John Smedley Archive Charitable Trust
Registered
2016

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£2k£11k
  • 2024£366£421
  • 2023£2k£486
Earlier years
  • 2022£1k£1k
  • 2021£1k£156

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE HISTORY OF KNITWEAR AND TEXTILE MANUFACTURING IN THE UK AND SUCH OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD IN SUCH WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT, INCLUDING (BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY) BY:(A) IDENTIFYING, ACQUIRING, SAFEGUARDING, RESTORING, CONSERVING, PUBLICISING, EXHIBITING AND MAKING PUBLICLY AVAILABLE AN ARCHIVE COLLECTION OF INFORMATION, GARMENTS, TOOLS, MACHINERY AND OTHER ARTEFACTS OF HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE AND IMPORTANCE (INCLUDING, WHERE APPROPRIATE, BUILDINGS AND OTHER STRUCTURES)(B) CARRYING OUT RELEVANT RESEARCH; AND(C) PROVIDING PUBLIC LECTURES, CONFERENCES, EXHIBITIONS AND OTHER EDUCATIONAL EVENTS

Grants received

1 grant · £43,500 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 · £43,500

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £43,5002017-06-21
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.

3 trustees on the board

10y median 10y
average tenure
10y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

11.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (3)

3
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 3Education/training 3Other Charitable Purposes 3

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 3Other services 2Business services 1

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together
  • Small board - little cover if a trustee leaves

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£2k latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1169156
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 13 APR 2016
Companies House
Company number 10123149 · Active
Contact on the register
01332378396 · archive@johnsmedley.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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