Registered charity (CIO) · Okehampton

William Pengelly Cave Studies Trust

11 trustees
Income £16k (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does: Education/training, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where: Devon
Website: www.pengellytrust.org (opens in a new tab)
Registered: 1969

Income and spending

YearIncomeSpending
2025£16k£11k
2024£11k£15k
2023£15k£10k

Earlier years

2022£12k£17k
2021£15k£8k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2022: Government grants 23%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

A) TO ADVANCE THE SCIENCE OF SPELAEOLOGY. B) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN THAT SCIENCE. C) TO PROMOTE THE CONSERVATION OF SCIENTIFIC FEATURES OF CAVES AND THEIR ENVIRONS.

Grants received

4 grants · £51,811 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £40,582 (2 grants)
The National Lottery Community Fund · £11,229 (2 grants)

Most recent

The National Lottery Community Fund £4,2472011-09-22
The National Lottery Community Fund £6,9822006-07-18
The National Lottery Heritage Fund £6,9822006-07-18
The National Lottery Heritage Fund £33,6002006-06-29

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.

11 trustees on the board

5.5y median 2y

average tenure

14y

longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

David Warne Chair since 2012
Beth Cramman since 2014

5.3y

average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (1)

Richard Vooght

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 11Environment/conservation/heritage 11The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 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.

Education 1Health and social care 1

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.

2020

2021

2022

2023

2024

incomespending£11k latest income

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details

Registered charity number: 259303
Status: Registered
Governing document: CIO - FOUNDATION CONVERSIONDATED 22 SEP 2022
Contact on the register: 01837840259
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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