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Registered charity (CIO) · Staffordshire

Friends of Shenstone Tower

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £2k (2025)
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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
Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Staffordshire
Website
theoldchurchtoweratshenstone.org/fost (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2020

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£2k£11k
  • 2024£10k£11k
  • 2023£13k£29k
Earlier years
  • 2022£300k£350k
  • 2021£242k£163k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 42%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

RESTORE, PRESERVE, REPAIR, MAINTAIN AND IMPROVE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE WIDER PUBLIC, THE HISTORIC ENGLAND GRADE 2* LISTED (AT RISK) OLD CHURCH TOWER (LIST ENTRY NUMBER 10388300) SPECIFICALLY TO:DEVELOP THE COMMUNITY USE OF THE TOWER FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC; AS AN INTIMATE CENTRE FOR THE ARTS; AS AN HISTORICAL LEARNING CENTRE AND AS A VIEWING PLATFORM ON THE ESTABLISHED SHENSTONE HERITAGE TRAIL.

Grants received

4 grants · £122,931 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £105,677 (2 grants)
  • Garfield Weston Foundation · £10,000
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £7,254

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £7,2542023-12-15
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £83,8712022-04-01
  • Garfield Weston Foundation £10,0002021-09-03
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £21,8062020-04-01
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.

10 trustees on the board

5.5y median 7y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

6.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (3)

1
company-linked trustees

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

Arts/culture/heritage/science 10Amateur Sport 1Education/training 1Religious Activities 1The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 1

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

Health and social care 1

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

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£10k latest income · spending exceeded income in 2023 and 2024

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1187173
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - ASSOCIATION Registered 02 Jan 2020
Contact on the register
01543481947 · ADMIN@SHENSTONE-STAFFS.GOV.UK
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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