Registered charity · West Sussex
Sussex Heritage Trust Limited
- 12 trustees
- Income £217k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources
Who leads it
- David Neville CowanChair · since 2019
- Charles Vernon Anson CVO, DL,Trustee · since 2016
- Graham FlightTrustee · since 2025
- James Edwin Tilney CooperTrustee · since 2019
- James Nicholas WhitmoreTrustee · since 2023
- Joanna Lucy ClarkTrustee · since 2025
- Lap-Sun ChanTrustee · since 2025
- Nicholas Streather JonesTrustee · since 2019
- Richard David Bruce PailthorpeTrustee · since 2019
- Richard Nicholas CrookTrustee · since 2018
- Sarah ChapmanTrustee · since 2017
- Victoria Amanda Mary BackTrustee · since 2024
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, Environment/conservation/heritage
- Where
- East Sussex, West Sussex
- Website
- www.sussexheritagetrust.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Sussex Heritage Trust Limited
- Registered
- 1977
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£217k£243k
- 2024£155k£172k
- 2023£158k£143k
Earlier years
- 2022£121k£113k
- 2021£125k£106k
Charitable objects
TO PRESERVE AND ENHANCE AND TO ENCOURAGE THE APPRECIATION OF WHATEVER OF THE ENGLISH HISTORICAL, ARCHITECTURAL AND CONSTRUCTIONAL HERITAGE MAY EXIST IN SUSSEX IN THE FORM OF LAND BUILDINGS EQUIPMENT AND FURNITURE OF PARTICULAR BEAUTY OR HISTORICAL, ARCHITECTURAL OR CONSTRUCTIONAL INTEREST.
Board analysis for researchers
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.
12 trustees on the board
- David Neville Cowan Chair since 2019
- Charles Vernon Anson CVO, DL, since 2016
- Graham Flight since 2025
- James Edwin Tilney Cooper since 2019
- James Nicholas Whitmore since 2023
- Joanna Lucy Clark since 2025
- Lap-Sun Chan since 2025
- Nicholas Streather Jones since 2019
- Richard Nicholas Crook since 2018
- Richard David Bruce Pailthorpe since 2019
- Sarah Chapman since 2017
- Victoria Amanda Mary Back since 2024
Trustees past 6 years
- David Neville Cowan Chair since 2019
- Charles Vernon Anson CVO, DL, since 2016
- James Edwin Tilney Cooper since 2019
- Nicholas Streather Jones since 2019
- Richard Nicholas Crook since 2018
- Richard David Bruce Pailthorpe since 2019
- Sarah Chapman since 2017
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (9)
- David Neville Cowan Chair since 2019
- Graham Flight since 2025
- James Nicholas Whitmore since 2023
- Joanna Lucy Clark since 2025
- Lap-Sun Chan since 2025
- Nicholas Streather Jones since 2019
- Richard David Bruce Pailthorpe since 2019
- Sarah Chapman since 2017
- Victoria Amanda Mary Back since 2024
Portfolio (3)
- Charles Vernon Anson CVO, DL, since 2016
- James Edwin Tilney Cooper since 2019
- Richard Nicholas Crook since 2018
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.
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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
- 274366
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 23 SEPTEMBER 1977 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION 29 NOVEMBER 1999 AND 28 APRIL 2003.
- Companies House
- Company number 01331300 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 01243576524 · info@sussexheritagetrust.com
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 13th 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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