Registered charity · Buckinghamshire

The Lionel Abel-Smith Trust

10 trustees
Income £281k (2024)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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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: General Charitable Purposes
Where: Buckinghamshire
Website: www.wendovertrust.org (opens in a new tab)
Registered: 1979

Income and spending

YearIncomeSpending
2024£281k£214k
2023£259k£323k
2022£228k£231k

Earlier years

2021£216k£155k
2020£192k£188k

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Charitable objects

TO MAKE SUCH PAYMENTS AND GENERALLY TO APPLY THE TRUST FUND AND THE INCOME THEREFROM FOR SUCH CHARITABLE OR EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS OF THE TOWN OF WENDOVER BUCKINGHAMSHIRE AND ALSO FOR SUCH OTHER GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF WENDOVER OR ANY OF ITS INHABITANTS AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL DETERMINE.

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

5.8y median 7y

average tenure

11y

longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

Robert Hugh Duggan Chair since 2015
Caroline Harrington since 2017
John William Mayhead CBE since 2017
Steve Bishop since 2017

11.5y

average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

Portfolio (4)

company-linked trustees

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

General Charitable Purposes 10The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 3Disability 2Education/training 2Recreation 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.

Health and social care 2Other services 2Education 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.

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2021

2022

2023

2024

incomespending£281k latest income

Sources

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

Record details

Registered charity number: 274879
Status: Registered
Governing document: SETTLEMENT DATED 01 DECEMBER 1977 AS AMENDED 14 MAY 2008AS AMENDED BY RESOLUTION DATED 26 APR 2017 as amended on 13 Oct 2021
Contact on the register: 07423266713 · clerk@wendovertrust.org
Edition: Register edition compiled 27th 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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