Registered charity (CIO) · Wadhurst
The Herbal Medicine Trust
- 5 trustees
- Income £803k (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, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
- Where
- Throughout England And Wales
- Registered
- 2019
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2024£803k£753k
- 2023£739k£661k
- 2022£513k£298k
Earlier years
- 2021£0£0
- 2020£0£0
Income trend, 2020 to 2024.
Charitable objects
TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN THE SCIENCE STUDY AND PRACTICE OF HERBAL MEDICINE AND ALLIED DISCIPLINES IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY:(A) TO ESTABLISH AND MAINTAIN A SCHOOL KNOWN AS HEARTWOOD COLLEGE OF HERBAL MEDICINE FOR THE TRAINING AND TUITION OF STUDENTS IN MEDICAL HERBALISM AND GIVING BOTH LECTURES IN THEORETICAL ASPECTS AND DEMONSTRATIONS IN PRACTICAL TRAINING(B) TO PROVIDE SUPPORT AND TRAINING TO MEDICAL HERBALISTS IN FURTHERANCE OF THEIR CAREER(C) TO PROVIDE OR SUPPORT POST-GRADUATE COURSES IN MEDICAL HERBALISM(D) TO RESEARCH INTO MEDICAL HERBALISM FOR THE PURPOSES OF INVESTIGATING AND EVALUATING THE THERAPEUTIC CLAIMS OF HERBAL REMEDIES EXAMINING HERBAL CONSTITUENTS AND THEIR PHARMACOLOGICAL ACTION PREPARING CLINICAL TRIALS OF HERBAL REMEDIES AND PUBLISHING THE RESULTING INFORMATION TO HERBAL PRACTITIONERS AND THE PUBLIC(E) TO ESTABLISH SCHOLARSHIPS IN MEDICAL HERBAL RESEARCH AND TO SUPPORT ANY SUCH RESEARCH PROGRAMMES IN PLANT REMEDIES AND THEIR ACTION, AND(F) TO SUPPORT FINANCIALLY OR OTHERWISE ANY STUDENT OF MEDICAL HERBALISM OR QUALIFIED MEDICAL HERBALIST IN ANY ACTIVITY DESIGNED TO OR WITH THE EFFECT OF PROMOTING THE BENEFITS OF HERBAL MEDICINE WHETHER BY (BUT NOT LIMITED TO) THE PROVISION OF CLINICS SEMINARS LECTURES OR WORKSHOPS
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
- Paul Hambly Chair since 2019
- Deborah Louise Sweetman since 2019
- Deirdre Atkinson since 2022
- Iain Millership since 2022
- Janine Merrick Nicol since 2020
Trustees past 6 years
- Paul Hambly Chair since 2019
- Deborah Louise Sweetman since 2019
- Janine Merrick Nicol since 2020
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (5)
- Paul Hambly Chair since 2019
- Deborah Louise Sweetman since 2019
- Deirdre Atkinson since 2022
- Iain Millership since 2022
- Janine Merrick Nicol since 2020
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
17.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 14.3 in 2020
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1183842
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CIO - FOUNDATION REGISTERED 11 JUN 2019AMENDED ON 06 NOV 2023
- Contact on the register
- 01892783027 · paul@hamblyshealth.co.uk
- 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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