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Registered charity (CIO) · Canterbury

Friends of Westgate Parks

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £946 (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Kent
Website
www.westgateparks.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2018

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£946£486
  • 2024£1k£2k
  • 2023£4k£2k
Earlier years
  • 2022£1k£2k
  • 2021£4k£6k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2021: Government grants 53%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE: 1. THE PRESERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE WESTGATE PARKS IN CANTERBURY (HEREINAFTER CALLED `THE PARKS`) AS A PLACE OF HISTORIC AND ECOLOGICAL INTEREST AND BEAUTY.2. TO PROMOTE CONSERVATION OF THE NATURAL PLANT AND ANIMAL LIFE OF THE PARKS.3. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC INCLUDING SCHOOL CHILDREN IN THE SUBJECTS OF NATURAL HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY AND BY RESEARCH INTO THE BIODIVERSITY, GEOMORPHOLOGY AND ARCHAEOLOGY OF AREAS OF THE WESTGATE PARKS.

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.

8 trustees on the board

6.4y median 8y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

6.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

0
company-linked trustees

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

Environment/conservation/heritage 8General Charitable Purposes 8

Gaps to watch

  • No commercial or business experience on the board
  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together
  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£1k latest income

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1178364
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - ASSOCIATION Registered 14 May 2018
Contact on the register
01227761178 · friendsofwestgateparks@gmail.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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