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South Downs National Park Trust

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £2.3m (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, Environment/conservation/heritage, Economic/community Development/employment
Where
East Sussex, Hampshire, West Sussex
Website
www.southdownstrust.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
South Downs National Park Trust
Registered
2017

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£2.3m£1.6m
  • 2024£1.7m£1.4m
  • 2023£1.6m£1.0m
Earlier years
  • 2022£873k£761k
  • 2021£898k£591k
Charitable objects

1.1 THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE:1.1 TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL, NATURAL AND CULTURAL ENVIRONMENT PRIMARILY WITHIN THE SOUTH DOWNS NATIONAL PARK AND SURROUNDING AREAS AND ALSO WITHIN SUCH OTHER NATIONAL PARKS AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY:(1) CARRYING OUT WORK TO IMPROVE THE LANDSCAPE, ENVIRONMENT AND BUILT HERITAGE;(2) RECORDING LOCAL TRADITIONS AND CUSTOMS, SUPPORTING TRADITIONAL SKILLS AND PROMOTING ALL ARTS INSPIRED BY THE SOUTH DOWNS; AND(3) SUPPORTING COMMUNITY GROUPS AND FACILITIES WHICH HELP ACHIEVE THESE AIMS;1.2 TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN PARTICULAR IN THE SUSTAINABILITY, CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND ENHANCEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL, NATURAL AND CULTURAL ENVIRONMENT OF THE SOUTH DOWNS NATIONAL PARK.

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.

10 trustees on the board

2.6y median 1.5y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

6.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

Portfolio (2)

9
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 10Education/training 10Environment/conservation/heritage 10

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Other services 9Arts and leisure 4Finance 2

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£2.3m 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.

1.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months

0
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.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1174975
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 10 APR 2017
Companies House
Company number 10719031 · Active
Contact on the register
01730819218 · JAMES.WINKWORTH@SOUTHDOWNS.GOV.UK
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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