Registered charity (CIO) · Ripley
The Butterley Ironworks Trust
- 5 trustees
- Income £2k (2024)
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, Environment/conservation/heritage
- Where
- Derbyshire
- Registered
- 2017
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2024£2k£96
- 2023£4k£9k
- 2022£23k£29k
Earlier years
- 2021£13k£1k
- 2020£12£0
Income trend, 2020 to 2024.
Income source mix, 2024: Government grants 42%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE1. THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION FOR ALL BY INCREASING AND INSPIRING THE PUBLIC'S UNDERSTANDING AND APPRECIATION OF THE INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE OF RIPLEY, DERBYSHIRE, WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THE BUTTERLEY WORKS (INCLUDING THE CROMFORD CANAL) AND THE MIDLAND RAILWAY SITES IN RIPLEY SINCE THE 18TH CENTURY; AND2. THE ADVANCEMENT OF HERITAGE BY THE PROTECTION, PRESERVATION AND MAINTENANCE OF THE HISTORIC BUILDINGS AND MONUMENTS (INCLUDING THE CROMFORD CANAL) FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT; AND3. THE PROVISION AND DEVELOPMENT OF A MUSEUM COMPRISING A COMPLEX OF HISTORIC, ARCHITECTURAL AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL IMPORTANCE AS A MEANS OF RECORDING AND EXEMPLIFYING THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE AREA SINCE THE 18TH CENTURY TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE MODERN INDUSTRIALISED WORLD, FOR THE BENEFIT AND ENJOYMENT OF THE PUBLIC.
Grants received
1 grant · £10,000 total360Giving 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 · £10,000
Most recent
- The National Lottery Heritage Fund
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
- David Alan Williams Chair since 2019
- Brendan Martin Stafford since 2019
- Robert Grasar since 2017
- Sylvia Mason since 2025
- Stephen Dennis Freeborn since 2017
Trustees past 6 years
- David Alan Williams Chair since 2019
- Brendan Martin Stafford since 2019
- Robert Grasar since 2017
- Stephen Dennis Freeborn since 2017
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (2)
- Brendan Martin Stafford since 2019
- Robert Grasar since 2017
Portfolio (3)
- David Alan Williams Chair since 2019
- Sylvia Mason since 2025
- Stephen Dennis Freeborn since 2017
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.
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Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1173670
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 04 Jul 2017
- Contact on the register
- 01773479000
- 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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