Skip to content
Governance Register
Sign inFind yourself
Find yourselfSign in
Search How it works For organisations For professionals

Edition

United Kingdom (current)IrelandUnited StatesNew ZealandCanadaAustraliaScotlandNorthern Ireland

Registered charity · Warwickshire

The Shakespearean Authorship Trust

  • 7 trustees
  • Income £29k (2025)
How am I connected?
More
View network map Report an issue

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

Network

The large node is The Shakespearean Authorship Trust. Red nodes are organisations, white nodes are people. Sign in free to explore further.

Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

Do you help lead this organisation? Set up its network · How it works

About

What it does
Education/training
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.shakespeareanauthorshiptrust.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1981

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£29k£9k
  • 2024£12k£14k
  • 2023£8k£10k
Earlier years
  • 2022£7k£9k
  • 2021£9k£8k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THE SOCIAL POLITICAL AND LITERARY HISTORY OF ENGLAND IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY AND THE AUTHORSHIP OF THE LITERARY WORKS COMMONLY ATTRIBUTED TO WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.

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.

5.4y median 3y
average tenure
18y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

6.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

Portfolio (1)

0
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 7

Gaps to watch

  • No commercial or business experience on the board
  • 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.

🔒 Succession forecast is a Pro feature - the board seats likely to open in the next year and the ideal next trustee. Explore Pro →

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£29k latest income

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
282282
Status
Registered
Governing document
DECLARATION OF TRUST DATED 11TH MARCH 1981 as amended on 20 Feb 2026 as amended on 20 Feb 2026
Contact on the register
02072746688 · shakeauthtrust@gmail.com
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.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Report an issue · How we handle data