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Registered charity (CIO) · Farnborough

The Olive Matthews Collection

  • 5 trustees
  • Income £194k (2025)

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
Surrey
Website
chertseymuseum.org/home (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2021

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£194k£182k
  • 2024£218k£185k
  • 2023£217k£164k
Earlier years
  • 2022£166k£189k

Income trend, 2022 to 2025.

Charitable objects

(1) THE OBJECT OF THE CIO IS TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE ARTS, IN PARTICULAR THROUGH MAINTAINING THE OLIVE MATTHEWS COLLECTION IN ITS ENTIRETY AND MAKING THE COLLECTION AVAILABLE FOR DISPLAY TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC:(A) BY RUNNYMEDE BOROUGH COUNCIL IN ITS MUSEUM IN CHERTSEY OR IN SOME OTHER SUITABLE MUSEUM IN THE BOROUGH OF RUNNYMEDE; OR(B) IN SUCH OTHER LOCAL AUTHORITY, REGIONAL OR NATIONAL MUSEUM(S) WITHIN THE UNITED KINGDOM AS THE CHARITY TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME SEE FITPROVIDED THAT IF THERE IS, IN THE OPINION OF THE CHARITY TRUSTEES, MORE THAN ONE SUITABLE MUSEUM THE CHARITY TRUSTEES MAY DIVIDE THE COLLECTION BETWEEN SUCH MUSEUMS IN SUCH MANNER AND IN SUCH SHARES AS THEY MAY IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE.(2) FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS CLAUSE 3 (AND IN THIS CONSTITUTION MORE GENERALLY) “THE OLIVE MATTHEWS COLLECTION” AND THE “COLLECTION” MEANS THE COLLECTION OF COSTUMES, BRODERIES, BUCKLES, FANS, WATCHES, OTHER FASHION ACCESSORIES, SILVER AND OTHER OBJECTS OF ANTIQUE CRAFTSMANSHIP OR HISTORIC INTEREST ORIGINALLY SETTLED ON TRUST BY OLIVE MARY MATTHEWS PURSUANT TO A DEED OF TRUST DATED 12 MARCH 1969 AND MADE BETWEEN (1) OLIVE MARY MATTHEWS; AND (2) SYDNEY ALFRED OLIVER, BERNARD FREDERICK JONES PARDOE AND JOHN AUSTEN NELSON-JONES, AND ANY SUBSEQUENT ADDITIONS TO THAT COLLECTION PROVIDED THAT THE CIO MAY ALSO MAINTAIN AND DISPLAY SEPARATE COLLECTIONS, WHICH NEED NOT FORM PART OF THE COLLECTION, AND CLAUSE 3(1) SHALL BE READ ACCORDINGLY.

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

4.8y median 5y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
12.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (4)

Portfolio (1)

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 5Environment/conservation/heritage 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.

Education 1Health and social care 1Other services 1

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 4 years.
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£194k latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1194375
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 07 May 2021
Contact on the register
01276854905 · theolivematthewscollection@gmail.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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