Registered charity (CIO) · Hexham
Hexham Abbey Heritage Development
- 3 trustees
- Income £419 (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
- Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Where
- Northumberland
- Registered
- 2018
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£419£60
- 2024£288£2k
- 2023£115£282
Earlier years
- 2022£43k£16k
- 2021£0£30
Charitable objects
1. THE PRESERVATION AND MAINTENANCE, CONSERVATION AND RESTORATION, IMPROVEMENT, DEVELOPMENT AND ALTERATION, INCLUDING EXTENSIONS AND ADDITIONS, OF HEXHAM ABBEY AND ITS ASSOCIATED BUILDINGS, INCLUDING THE PRIORY BUILDINGS, LANDS AND CURTILAGE, AND THEIR FIXTURES, FITTINGS, CONTENTS, COLLECTIONS AND ARCHIVES.2. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN HEXHAM ABBEY ITS CHRISTIAN HERITAGE AND TRADITIONS INCLUDING ITS FIXTURES, COLLECTIONS, ARTEFACTS AND ARCHIVES, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT WITHIN THE AREA OF BENEFIT (BEING THE NORTH EAST OF ENGLAND).3. TO PROMOTE, IMPROVE, DEVELOP AND MAINTAIN EDUCATION IN AND APPRECIATION OF MUSIC, ARTS AND CULTURE, INCLUDING THE CHURCH MUSIC AND THE CHORAL TRADITION OF HEXHAM ABBEY, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT WITHIN THE AREA OF BENEFIT (BEING THE NORTH EAST OF ENGLAND).
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.
3 trustees on the board
- Anthony Jonathan Hewitt since 2018
- Richard Thornton since 2018
- Rev David Charles Glover since 2021
Trustees past 6 years
- Anthony Jonathan Hewitt since 2018
- Richard Thornton since 2018
First-time vs portfolio trustees
Portfolio (3)
- Anthony Jonathan Hewitt since 2018
- Richard Thornton since 2018
- Rev David Charles Glover since 2021
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
- Small board - little cover if a trustee leaves
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
- 1179070
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 05 Jul 2018
- Contact on the register
- 01434602031 · admin@hexhamabbey.org.uk
- 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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