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
- Timothy John Hardesty Chair since 2021
- Estrella Diane De Glanville since 2021
- Gerald John Drake since 2021
- Janet Elizabeth Wood since 2021
- Richard Thomas Jones since 2022
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (4)
- Timothy John Hardesty Chair since 2021
- Estrella Diane De Glanville since 2021
- Janet Elizabeth Wood since 2021
- Richard Thomas Jones since 2022
Portfolio (1)
- Gerald John Drake since 2021
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
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
- 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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