Registered charity · Brockenhurst
Shakespeare Southampton Legacy Trust
Shakespeare Southampton Legacy Trust is a registered charity (number 1184734) based in Brockenhurst, governed by 4 trustees and chaired by Ralph Douglas-Scott Montagu since 2017. Latest income £102k (2024). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 4th October 2026.
Also known as Sslt (Charity Commission)
- 4 trustees
- Income £102k (2024)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 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, Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Where
- Throughout England And Wales
- Website
- shakespearesouthamptonlegacytrust.com (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 2019
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2024£102k£57k
- 2023£31k£60k
- 2022£38k£14k
Earlier years
- 2021£15k£18k
- 2020£31k£5k
Income trend, 2020 to 2024.
Charitable objects
1) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION, THROUGH THE APPRECIATION AND STUDY OF THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WRIOTHESLEY, EARLS OF SOUTHAMPTON (1505-1667), INCLUDING THEIR COLLATERAL DESCENT, WITH ADDED REFERENCE TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF SHAKESPEAREAN KNOWLEDGE AS IT RELATES TO HENRY WRIOTHESLEY, 3RD EARL OF SOUTHAMPTON (1573-1624), WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S SOLE DEDICATEE; INCLUDING BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY • ESTABLISHING AND MAINTAINING, AN ONLINE REPOSITORY OF BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS, RECORDS OF HISTORIC INTEREST, PICTURES, PHOTOGRAPHS, AND OBJECTS OF ANTIQUITY• SPONSORING, HOSTING, AND CONTRIBUTING TO CONFERENCES, LECTURES AND COMMEMORATION EVENTS BRINGING TOGETHER INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHERS AND MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WORLDWIDE• PROMOTING, PRODUCING AND SUPPORTING INFORMATION MEDIA SUCH AS THE INTERNET, RADIO, TELEVISION, LIBRARIES, UNIVERSITY PRESSES, SEMINARS, CONFERENCES, LECTURES AND EXHIBITIONS• DEVELOPING, SUPPORTING, AND MAKING RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIPS, MAINTENANCE ALLOWANCES, AND GRANTS2) FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, THE PRESERVATION, RESTORATION, REPAIR, MAINTENANCE, IMPROVEMENT AND BEAUTIFICATION OF THE HISTORIC GRADE 1 LISTED BUILDING KNOWN AS ST PETER’S PARISH CHURCH TITCHFIELD, HAMPSHIRE PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THE CHAPEL, MONUMENTS, AND SUBTERRANEAN SEPULCHRE OF THE WRIOTHESLEY, EARLS OF SOUTHAMPTON
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.
4 trustees on the board
- Ralph Douglas-Scott Montagu Chair since 2017
- Dorna Louise Bewley M.A. since 2017
- Laura Kay Matthias since 2017
- Lisa Wilson since 2025
Trustees past 6 years
- Ralph Douglas-Scott Montagu Chair since 2017
- Dorna Louise Bewley M.A. since 2017
- Laura Kay Matthias since 2017
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (4)
- Ralph Douglas-Scott Montagu Chair since 2017
- Dorna Louise Bewley M.A. since 2017
- Laura Kay Matthias since 2017
- Lisa Wilson since 2025
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.
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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
- 1184734
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- TRUST DEED DATED 06 JUL 2018AS AMENDED BY DEED DATED 29 JUN 2019
- Contact on the register
- 001590614705 · sslt@beaulieu.co.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 4th October 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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