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Registered charity · London

Woolwich Creative District Trust

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £3.4m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

Also 1 organisation acting as trustee: Davano Jahdia Spencer Francis.

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
Greenwich
Website
www.woolwich.works (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Woolwich Creative District Trust
Registered
2020

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£3.4m£3.4m
  • 2024£2.7m£3.2m
  • 2023£1.8m£3.9m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.2m£2.6m
  • 2021£1.5m£634k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2022: Government grants 46%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

1.1 THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY SHALL BE:1.1.1 THE ADVANCEMENT OF ART FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY:(A) IMPROVING, PRESERVING AND PROVIDING PUBLIC AMENITIES FOR USE IN ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE CREATIVE AND DRAMATIC ARTS, WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THE WOOLWICH CREATIVE DISTRICT;(B) PROMOTING, MAINTAINING, IMPROVING, ENCOURAGING AND ADVANCING EDUCATION AND VOCATIONAL TRAINING AS RELATES TO CREATIVE AND DRAMATIC ARTS, IN ANY FORM AND BY ANY MEDIUM.1.1.2 PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES TO RESIDENTS OF WOOLWICH AND SURROUNDING AREAS IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR RACE, GENDER, RELIGION OR BELIEF, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL CIRCUMSTANCES WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.

Grants received

3 grants · £447,438 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 · £428,000
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £9,774
  • Backstage Trust · £9,664

Most recent

  • Backstage Trust £9,6642023-07-07
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £9,7742022-04-22
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £428,0002021-10-27
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.

7 trustees on the board

3.4y median 4y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

11y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

Portfolio (1)

6
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 7Education/training 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.

Arts and leisure 14Education 4Hospitality 4

Gaps to watch

  • 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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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£3.4m 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.

0.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months

108 from 8 in 2021
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
1189180
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 18 MAY 2018AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 21 APR 2020
Companies House
Company number 11369859 · Active
Contact on the register
+44 (0)20 8987 8097 · DIRECTOR.OFFICE@WOOLWICH.WORKS
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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