Registered charity · Stamford
Burghley House Preservation Trust Limited
- 10 trustees
- Income £16m (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources
Who leads it
- Cressida Mary HoggTrustee · since 2022
- Edward George CliveTrustee
- Edward Leigh-PembertonTrustee
- Edward Mortimer Harley OBETrustee
- Jonathon Chenevix-TrenchTrustee · since 2011
- Michael Reginald ParsonsTrustee · since 2025
- SIR Giles Henry Charles Floyd BTTrustee
- Stuart Richmond-WatsonTrustee · since 2011
- William A OswaldTrustee
- William ParenteTrustee · since 2011
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- Environment/conservation/heritage
- Where
- Cambridgeshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire
- Website
- www.burghley.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Burghley House Preservation Trust Limited
- Registered
- 1969
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£16m£16m
- 2024£15m£14m
- 2023£14m£13m
Earlier years
- 2022£9.1m£8.3m
- 2021£8.0m£7.8m
Charitable objects
THE ADVANCEMENT OF HISTORIC AND AESTHETIC EDUCATION AND IN PARTICULAR THE PRESERVATION OF BUILDINGS AS NATIONAL MONUMENTS.
Board analysis for researchers
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.
10 trustees on the board
- Cressida Mary Hogg since 2022
- Edward George Clive
- Edward Leigh-Pemberton
- Edward Mortimer Harley OBE
- Jonathon Chenevix-Trench since 2011
- Michael Reginald Parsons since 2025
- SIR Giles Henry Charles Floyd BT
- Stuart Richmond-Watson since 2011
- William A Oswald
- William Parente since 2011
10y median 15y
average tenure
15y
longest tenure
Trustees past 6 years
- Jonathon Chenevix-Trench since 2011
- Stuart Richmond-Watson since 2011
- William Parente since 2011
22.1y
average years in governance
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (5)
- Cressida Mary Hogg since 2022
- Jonathon Chenevix-Trench since 2011
- SIR Giles Henry Charles Floyd BT
- Stuart Richmond-Watson since 2011
- William Parente since 2011
Portfolio (5)
6
company-linked trustees
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Environment/conservation/heritage 10General Charitable Purposes 3Education/training 2Arts/culture/heritage/science 1Other Charitable Purposes 1The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 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.
Property 15Arts and leisure 13Professional services 12
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 5 years.
incomespending£16.0m 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.
73.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 116.5 in 2021
116 from 126 in 2021
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
- 258489
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 03/04/1969AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 02/05/1986AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 02/12/1987AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 03/07/1998NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 01/07/2011 as amended on 22 Dec 2022 as amended on 16 May 2023
- Companies House
- Company number 00951524 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 01780752075 · burghley@burghley.co.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 13th 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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