Registered charity · Republic of Ireland
The Michael Jacobs Foundation for Travel Writing
- 6 trustees
- Income £0 (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources
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
- Where
- Throughout England And Wales, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile and more
- Registered
- 2016
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£0£33k
- 2024£0£30k
- 2023£27£6k
Earlier years
- 2022£0£8k
- 2021£0£9k
Charitable objects
1) TO PROMOTE THE ART OF LITERATURE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY SPONSORING A WRITING AWARD TO BE KNOWN AS THE MICHAEL JACOBS TRAVEL WRITING PRIZE THEREBY PROMOTING MORE GENERALLY THE ART OF TRAVEL WRITING AND WRITING CONCERNING HISPANIC AND LATIN AMERICAN CULTURE 2) FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN THE ART OF LITERATURE AND OF HISPANIC AND LATIN AMERICAN CULTURE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT THROUGH THE MEDIUM OF TRAVEL WRITING IN BOTH ENGLISH AND SPANISH LANGUAGE IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY MEANS OF SUPPORTING GRANTS, AWARDS, SEMINARS AND CONFERENCES IN RELATION TO TRAVEL WRITING AND HISPANIC AND LATIN AMERICAN CULTURE
Board analysis for researchers
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.
6 trustees on the board
- Francis Brendan Jacobs Chair since 2016
- Alexander Johnstone since 2016
- Jacqueline ANN RAE since 2016
- SIR Mark Jones since 2016
- Sophie Katherine Jacobs since 2016
- Thomas Desmond Brennan since 2016
Trustees past 6 years
- Francis Brendan Jacobs Chair since 2016
- Alexander Johnstone since 2016
- Jacqueline ANN RAE since 2016
- SIR Mark Jones since 2016
- Sophie Katherine Jacobs since 2016
- Thomas Desmond Brennan since 2016
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (5)
- Francis Brendan Jacobs Chair since 2016
- Alexander Johnstone since 2016
- Jacqueline ANN RAE since 2016
- Sophie Katherine Jacobs since 2016
- Thomas Desmond Brennan since 2016
Portfolio (1)
- SIR Mark Jones since 2016
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.
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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1169929
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- TRUST DEED DATED 24 OCT 2016
- Contact on the register
- 02072225381
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 13th 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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