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Registered charity · Suffolk

The Decorative Arts Society 1850 to Present

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £148k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.decorativeartssociety.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1976

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£148k£134k
  • 2024£123k£109k
  • 2023£57k£65k
Earlier years
  • 2022£70k£68k
  • 2021£41k£48k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

TO FOSTER AND PROMOTE AMONG THE GENERAL PUBLIC THE KNOWLEDGE, UNDERSTANDING AND APPRECIATION OF THE DECORATIVE ARTS FROM 1850 TO THE PRESENT DAY, PARTICULARLY IN GREAT BRITAIN, EUROPE AND THE USA, AND TO ENCOURAGE, PROMOTE, DISSEMINATE AND PUBLISH SCHOLARLY RESEARCH INTO THE DECORATIVE ARTS.

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.

3.6y median 2y
average tenure
13y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

Portfolio (1)

2
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Arts/culture/heritage/science 9Education/training 9Environment/conservation/heritage 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 1Professional services 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.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£148k latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
271838
Status
Registered
Governing document
TRUST DEED DATED 23 APRIL 1976, AS AMENDED BY SCHEME OF THE CHARITY COMMISSIONERS DATED 12 SEPTEMBER 1993, AND ORDER DATED 17 OCTOBER 2002. AS AMENDED BY RESOLUTION DATED 17 NOVEMBER 2005 as amended on 21 Apr 2022 as amended on 14 Jul 2022
Contact on the register
01865596790 · chairdas@gmail.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
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