Registered charity · Lincolnshire
The William Chester Estate Charity
- 6 trustees
- Income £13k (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
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Religious Activities
- Where
- Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire
- Registered
- 1964
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£13k£13k
- 2024£13k£12k
- 2023£13k£10k
Earlier years
- 2022£12k£10k
- 2021£12k£10k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Charitable objects
THE YEARLEY INCOME SHALL BY PAID BY THE ESTATE TRUSTEES TO THE RESPECTIVE BODIES OF LOCAL ADMINISTERING TRUSTEES IN THE PROPORTIONS PRESCRIBED BY THE FOUNDER FOR DISTRIBUTION BETWEEN THE POOR OF THE PARISHES OF KNIPTON, CROXTON KERRIAL, BARKESTON, BUCKMINSTER-UPON- THE-WOLDS, BURTON-ON-THE-WOLDS AND HARBY AND FOR THE PURCHASE OF TWO BIBLES FOR POOR CHILDREN OF BARKESTON.
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.
6 trustees on the board
- Graham Alan Shipman since 2025
- John Watchorn since 2014
- Richard Botterill since 2018
- Thomas Charles Knight
- Thomas Parry since 2019
- William LEE since 2019
Trustees past 6 years
- John Watchorn since 2014
- Richard Botterill since 2018
- Thomas Parry since 2019
- William LEE since 2019
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (3)
- Graham Alan Shipman since 2025
- John Watchorn since 2014
- William LEE since 2019
Portfolio (3)
- Richard Botterill since 2018
- Thomas Charles Knight
- Thomas Parry since 2019
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Gaps to watch
- No commercial or business experience on the board
- Several long-serving trustees could step down together
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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Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 233327
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- P.R. VOL 32 PART 5 PAGE 428 AND SCHEME OF THE 19 SEPTEMBER 1899
- Contact on the register
- 01476565371
- 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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