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Registered charity (CIO) · Guildford

The Guildford Society

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £4k (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th 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
Environment/conservation/heritage, Economic/community Development/employment, Other Charitable Purposes
Where
Surrey
Registered
2017

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£4k£4k
  • 2024£7k£7k
  • 2023£4k£6k
Earlier years
  • 2022£6k£4k
  • 2021£3k£13k
Charitable objects

THE SOCIETY IS ESTABLISHED FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AND FOR THE FOLLOWING PURPOSES IN THE AREA COMPRISING THE BOROUGH OF GUILDFORD:1. TO PROTECT AND ENHANCE ITS BEAUTY AND AMENITY, AND TO STIMULATE PUBLIC INTEREST THEREIN.2. TO PROMOTE HIGH STANDARDS OF PLANNING AND ARCHITECTURE.3. TO SECURE THE PRESERVATION, PROTECTION, DEVELOPMENT AND IMPROVEMENT OF FEATURES OF HISTORIC OR PUBLIC INTEREST.4. TO PURSUE THESE PURPOSES BY MEANS OF MEETINGS, EXHIBITIONS, LECTURES, PUBLICATIONS, OTHER FORMS OF INSTRUCTION AND PUBLICITY, AND PROMOTION OF SCHEMES OF A CHARITABLE NATURE.

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.

8 trustees on the board

6.8y median 7y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

9.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

2
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Economic/community Development/employment 8Environment/conservation/heritage 8Other Charitable Purposes 8

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 2

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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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£4k latest income

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1174395
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - ASSOCIATION Registered 25 Aug 2017
Contact on the register
01483503172 · info@guildfordsociety.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th 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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