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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

3y median 5y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
10.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (4)

Portfolio (1)

3
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Education/training 5Arts/culture/heritage/science 4General Charitable Purposes 4Disability 1Economic/community Development/employment 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 3Business services 2

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.
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£688k latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025
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.

6.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 2.9 in 2022

6 from 6 in 2024
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
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
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