Registered charity · London
The Headley Trust
- 6 trustees
- Income £1.6m (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources
Network
The large node is The Headley Trust. Red nodes are organisations, white nodes are people. Sign in free to explore further.
Who leads it
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
Do you help lead this organisation? Set up its network · How it works
About
- What it does
- General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability and 5 more
- Where
- Throughout England And Wales, Ethiopia, Bulgaria, Croatia and more
- Website
- www.sfct.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 1974
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£1.6m£9.1m
- 2024£2.2m£6.5m
- 2023£2.2m£6.3m
Earlier years
- 2022£1.9m£3.7m
- 2021£2.2m£3.8m
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Charitable objects
SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES OR CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS AS THE TRUSTEES MAY IN THEIR DISCRETION DETERMINE.
Grants given
287 grants · £19,199,422 total360Giving 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 recipients
- British Museum Development Trust · £5,037,900 (2 grants)
- Tate Liverpool · £500,000
- Whitechapel Art Gallery · £350,000
- Victoria & Albert Museum · £300,000 (2 grants)
- The Sainsbury Archive · £300,000
Most recent
- Lynn Museum
- South Georgia Heritage Trust
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
- Amanda Mccrystal since 2015
- Camilla Davan Woodward since 2013
- Charlotte Mary Rose Hatfield since 2022
- Lady Susan Sainsbury since 1974
- The RT HON SIR Timothy Sainsbury since 1973
- Timothy James Sainsbury since 1992
Trustees past 6 years
- Amanda Mccrystal since 2015
- Camilla Davan Woodward since 2013
- Lady Susan Sainsbury since 1974
- The RT HON SIR Timothy Sainsbury since 1973
- Timothy James Sainsbury since 1992
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (4)
- Amanda Mccrystal since 2015
- Camilla Davan Woodward since 2013
- Charlotte Mary Rose Hatfield since 2022
- The RT HON SIR Timothy Sainsbury since 1973
Portfolio (2)
- Lady Susan Sainsbury since 1974
- Timothy James Sainsbury since 1992
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.
Gaps to watch
- 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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
0.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 0.9 in 2021
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 266620
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- DECLARATION OF TRUST DATED 4TH JULY 1973
- Contact on the register
- 02074100330 · info@sfct.org.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 20th 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.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Report an issue · How we handle data