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Registered charity · Maidstone

Leeds Castle Foundation

Leeds Castle Foundation is a registered charity (number 268354) based in Maidstone, governed by 10 trustees. Latest income £13m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 18th October 2026.

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £13m (2025)
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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, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Amateur Sport and 2 more
Where
Kent
Website
www.leeds-castle.com (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Leeds Castle Foundation
Registered
1974

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£13m£13m
  • 2024£12m£12m
  • 2023£11m£11m
Earlier years
  • 2022£9.6m£10m
  • 2021£3.8m£6.9m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2022: Government grants 2%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION TO RELIEVE POVERTY TO ADVANCE RELIGION AND TO PROMOTE AND AID SUCH OTHER PURPOSES AS ARE RECOGNISED BY ENGLISH LAW TO BE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE AND IN PARTICULAR TO PRESERVE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT THE WHOLE OR PARTS OF THE BUILDINGS AND THEIR GROUNDS KNOWN AS LEEDS CASTLE IN THE COUNTY OF KENT AND TO PROMOTE AND ENCOURAGE MEDICAL RESEARCH, AND TO ENCOURAGE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION IN ANY BRANCH OF THE ARTS AND SCIENCES (FOR FURTHER DETAILS SEE CLAUSE 3 OF MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION

Grants received

4 grants · £421,729 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

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £45,7232026-03-12
  • Garfield Weston Foundation £100,0002025-06-16
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £50,3062024-10-02
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £225,7002023-11-01
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.

10 trustees on the board

3.6y median 3y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

15.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

Portfolio (4)

10
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 10The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 9Arts/culture/heritage/science 7Disability 1Environment/conservation/heritage 1General Charitable Purposes 1Religious Activities 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 18Business services 7Other services 6

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.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£12.7m latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

4.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 6.8 in 2021

207 from 163 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
268354
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 30 MAY 1974 AS AMENDED 25 & 26 NOVEMBER 1975, 12 JANUARY 1976, 14 DECEMBER 1977, 9 & 18 JANUARY 1978, 3 DECEMBER 1984 AND 5 FEBRUARY 1990
Companies House
Company number 01172263 · Active
Contact on the register
01622765400 · enquiries@leeds-castle.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 18th October 2026
Labels
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