Registered charity · West Sussex
The James Henry Green Charitable Trust
- 4 trustees
- Income £132k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Where
- Throughout England And Wales
- Website
- www.jhgct.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 1977
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£132k£121k
- 2024£132k£71k
- 2023£138k£284k
Earlier years
- 2022£131k£92k
- 2021£128k£293k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Charitable objects
THE TRUSTEES SHALL HOLD THE TRUST FUND AND THE INCOME THEREFROM UPON TRUST TOWARDS THE FOLLOWING CHARITABLE PURPOSES:(1) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC THROUGH THE CONSERVATION, STORAGE, AND MAINTENANCE OF THE GREEN COLLECTION AND MAKING IT AVAILABLE FOR RESEARCH AND PUBLIC DISPLAY (PHYSICALLY OR ONLINE) PRIMARILY AT THE BRIGHTON MUSEUM & ART GALLERY. THE GREEN COLLECTION WAS ASSEMBLED BY COLONEL JAMES HENRY GREEN AND MARY DOROTHY GREEN AND IS A COLLECTION OF ARTEFACTS, DOCUMENTS, BOOKS AND PHOTOGRAPHS RELATING TO THE HISTORY, CULTURES, LANGUAGES AND BELIEF SYSTEMS OF ASIA (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, MYANMAR ? FORMERLY BURMA). (2) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN RELATION TO WORLD CULTURES MEANING HERITAGE, CULTURE, ETHNOGRAPHY AND THE ARTS WORLDWIDE WITH A PARTICULAR FOCUS ON MYANMAR AND ITS DIASPORAS INCLUDING BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY: A. PROVISION OF GRANTS AND OTHER SUPPORT FOR MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS AND COLLECTIONS, SPECIFICALLY TO THE BRIGHTON MUSEUM & ART GALLERY (TO INCLUDE CORE CURATORIAL SUPPORT FOR ITS WORLD CULTURES COLLECTION); AND B. PROVISION OF FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE IN THE FORM OF GRANTS, SCHOLARSHIPS, BURSARIES AND SUPPORT FOR RESEARCH AND PRACTICE RELATING TO MUSEUMS, HERITAGE AND ARTS CURATION AND THE STUDY OF HERITAGE, CULTURE, ARTS AND ETHNOGRAPHY. (3) FUNDS IN ANY YEAR NOT REQUIRED FOR THE FURTHERANCE OF EITHER SUB-CLAUSE (1) OR (2) ABOVE MAY, AT THE DISCRETION OF THE TRUSTEES, BE APPLIED TO PROMOTE AND ENABLE THE EDUCATION AND/OR TRAINING OF PEOPLE (PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN SUBJECTS RELATING TO THE CULTURES AND/OR HERITAGE OF MYANMAR) IN ANY WAY THAT THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO AWARDING TO SUCH PERSONS SCHOLARSHIPS, MAINTENANCE ALLOWANCES OR GRANTS TENABLE AT ANY SCHOOL, UNIVERSITY, COLLEGE OR INSTITUTION OF HIGHER OR FURTHER EDUCATION OR TRAINING.
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.
4 trustees on the board
- Professor Rebecca Elmhirst Chair since 2019
- Jane Weeks since 2019
- Nicholas Bence-Trower since 2022
- Professor Anita Herle since 2010
Trustees past 6 years
- Professor Rebecca Elmhirst Chair since 2019
- Jane Weeks since 2019
- Professor Anita Herle since 2010
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (3)
- Professor Rebecca Elmhirst Chair since 2019
- Jane Weeks since 2019
- Professor Anita Herle since 2010
Portfolio (1)
- Nicholas Bence-Trower since 2022
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
- Narrow spread of causes across the board
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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Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 273972
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- TRUST DEED DATED 5TH APRIL 1977, AS AMENDED 5TH JULY 1993 as amended on 20 Nov 2020 as amended on 31 May 2026
- Contact on the register
- 01903813363
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 4th October 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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