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Registered charity · Petworth

The Johnson Trust Limited

  • 14 trustees
  • Income £23m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th 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
Education/training
Where
West Sussex
Website
www.seaford.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Johnson Trust Limited
Registered
1980

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£23m£23m
  • 2024£23m£22m
  • 2023£21m£20m
Earlier years
  • 2022£19m£17m
  • 2021£16m£16m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

(1) TO SUPPORT AND FURTHER THE OBJECTS OF THE SCHOOL KNOWN AS SEAFORD COLLEGE, LAVINGTON PARK, PETWORTH, WEST SUSSEX AND/OR ANY OTHER EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENT. (2) TO PROMOTE AND PROVIDE FOR CHARITABLE ADVANCEMENT OF PUBLIC EDUCATION GENERALLY.

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.

6.9y median 7y
average tenure
14y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

17.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (13)

Portfolio (1)

13
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 14Animals 1General Charitable Purposes 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.

Education 13Finance 9Arts and leisure 6

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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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

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£23.2m latest income · income exceeded spending 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.

10.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 0.0 in 2021

278 from 247 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
277439
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 25/01/1980AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 22/01/1996AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 11/02/2014
Companies House
Company number 01475319 · Active
Contact on the register
01798867212 · accounts@seaford.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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