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Registered charity (CIO) · London

The Charlotte Aitken Trust

  • 4 trustees
  • Income £175k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 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, Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Scotland, Northern Ireland, Throughout England And Wales
Registered
2020

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£175k£520k
  • 2024£712k£667k
  • 2023£245k£398k
Earlier years
  • 2022£7.8m£244k
  • 2021£25k£25k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE:3.1 TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC, IN PARTICULAR BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION IN THE SUBJECT OF LITERATURE;3.2 TO PROMOTE THE CREATIVE ARTS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, IN PARTICULAR BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION THE ART OF LITERATURE, WHETHER FICTION, NON-FICTION, DRAMA OR POETRY, INCLUDING BY THE PROVISION OF AWARDS TO AUTHORS OF LITERARY WORKS;3.3 TO ADVANCE HEALTH, IN PARTICULAR WITHOUT LIMITATION MENTAL HEALTH; AND3.4 SUCH OTHER OBJECTS, AS SHALL BE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE BY THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES, AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL DECIDE. NOTHING IN THIS CONSTITUTION SHALL AUTHORISE AN APPLICATION OF THE PROPERTY OF THE CHARITY FOR PURPOSES WHICH ARE NOT CHARITABLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 7 OF THE CHARITIES AND TRUSTEE INVESTMENT (SCOTLAND) ACT 2005 AND SECTION 2 OF THE CHARITIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 2008.

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

5.5y median 6y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

12y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (4)

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 4Education/training 4General Charitable Purposes 4

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

Tech and media 3Arts and leisure 1Finance 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 4 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£712k latest income
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

120.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months

1
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1187395
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 15 Jan 2020 as amended on 21 Jul 2023
Contact on the register
02073738672 · info@charlotteaitkentrust.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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