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Registered charity · Bristol

The Watershed Arts Trust Limited

The Watershed Arts Trust Limited is a registered charity (number 284188) based in Bristol, governed by 9 trustees and chaired by Stephen Gatfield since 2014. Latest income £7.5m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 18th October 2026.

Also known as Watershed Media Centre (Charity Commission)

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £7.5m (2025)
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About

What it does
Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Gloucestershire, Somerset, Bristol City
Website
www.watershed.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Watershed Arts Trust Limited
Registered
1982

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£7.5m£7.7m
  • 2024£6.6m£6.5m
  • 2023£3.7m£4.5m
Earlier years
  • 2022£4.6m£4.6m
  • 2021£4.5m£4.1m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2024: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND SKILLS IN AND INCREASE APPRECIATION AND UNDERSTANDING AMONGST ORGANISATIONS AND MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC OF THE ARTS, INCLUDING DIGITAL ARTS, FILMS, GAMES, MUSIC, JOURNALISM, CREATIVE WRITING, DRAMA, MIME, OPERA, DANCE, BALLET, SINGING, PHOTOGRAPHY, RADIO PROGRAMMES, SCULPTURE, CARVING, POTTERY, PAINTING, DRAWING, DESIGN AND ALL OTHER FORMS OF ARTISTIC OR CREATIVE WORKS AND WHETHER FOR TRANSMISSION, DISSEMINATION, BROADCAST, PERFORMANCE OR EXHIBITION IN PHYSICAL SPACES, IN CINEMAS, ON TELEVISION, ON RADIO, VIA THE INTERNET, VIA MOBILE TELEPHONES (OR OTHER DEVICES AND MEDIA EXISTING OR IN THE FUTURE DEVELOPED), OR OTHERWISE.

Grants received

9 grants · £1,500,792 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £907,264 (2 grants)
  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy · £239,031
  • Garfield Weston Foundation · £120,000 (2 grants)
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £115,398
  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology · £99,058

Most recent

  • Paul Hamlyn Foundation £7,5002025-08-13
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £115,3982024-11-06
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £12,5402023-12-15
  • Garfield Weston Foundation £20,0002023-06-20
  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy £239,0312022-04-01
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.

9 trustees on the board

4.6y median 4y
average tenure
12y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

8
company-linked trustees

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

Arts/culture/heritage/science 9Education/training 9

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Arts and leisure 9Hospitality 3Education 1

Gaps to watch

  • 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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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£7.5m latest income
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.

1.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 3.1 in 2021

127 from 109 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.
108 days
Latest accounts filed after the due dateiFiled after the due dateDate the accounts were received minus the reporting due date, latest filed cycle, Charity Commission register.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
284188
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 18TH NOVEMBER 1981AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 20/04/2015
Companies House
Company number 01608779 · Active
Contact on the register
01179276444 · info@watershed.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 18th October 2026
Labels
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