Registered charity · London
The Jencks Foundation
- 5 trustees
- Income £688k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 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
- General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Where
- Throughout England And Wales
- Website
- www.thecosmichouse.com (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- The Jencks Foundation
- Registered
- 2021
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£688k£550k
- 2024£713k£581k
- 2023£6k£124k
Earlier years
- 2022£432k£291k
Income trend, 2022 to 2025.
Charitable objects
TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC BY PROMOTING THEIR UNDERSTANDING AND KNOWLEDGE OF ARCHITECTURE INCLUDING IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION) THE EXPANDED FIELD OF ARCHITECTURE AND THE WORK OF CHARLES JENCKS IN THAT FIELD (INCLUDING BY OPENING AND MAINTAINING A MUSEUM IN THE GRADE 1 LISTED HOUSE KNOWN AS THE COSMIC HOUSE IN LANSDOWNE WALK, HOLLAND PARK, LONDON THAT WAS HIS HOME) AND TO PROMOTE RESEARCH FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN ALL ASPECTS OF THOSE SUBJECTS (AND TO PUBLISH THE USEFUL RESULTS).TO PRESERVE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT THE COSMIC HOUSE, LANSDOWNE WALK, HOLLAND PARK LONDON AS A BUILDING OF ARCHITECTURAL INTEREST AND SUCH OTHER BUILDINGS OF ARCHITECTURAL INTEREST AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME IDENTIFY.TO ADVANCE SUCH OTHER OBJECTS OR PURPOSES WHICH ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD AND IN SUCH MANNER AS THE TRUSTEES MAY IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION THINK FIT.
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
- Lily Clare Jencks Chair since 2021
- Alexander Sainsbury since 2026
- Ian Pleace since 2026
- Louisa Jencks since 2021
- Orlando Rock since 2021
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (4)
- Alexander Sainsbury since 2026
- Ian Pleace since 2026
- Louisa Jencks since 2021
- Orlando Rock since 2021
Portfolio (1)
- Lily Clare Jencks Chair 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.
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
6.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 2.9 in 2022
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1197265
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 06 JUL 2021
- Companies House
- Company number 13496093 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 02072434412 · info@thecosmichouse.org
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 27th September 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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