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Registered charity · Salisbury

Wessex Archaeology Limited

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £28m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources

Who leads it

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
Germany, Netherlands, Ireland, United States and more
Website
www.wessexarch.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Wessex Archaeology Limited
Registered
1983

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£28m£27m
  • 2024£25m£23m
  • 2023£23m£25m
Earlier years
  • 2022£23m£22m
  • 2021£21m£20m
Charitable objects

1. THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION; AND2. THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ARTS, CULTURE, HERITAGE OR SCIENCE.

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.

0.9y median 1y
average tenure
2y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
5.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

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 8Education/training 8Environment/conservation/heritage 8

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

Professional services 15Utilities 6Finance 2

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£27.7m 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.

4.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 2.8 in 2021

387 from 318 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
287786
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 06/04/1983AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 15/08/1983AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 12/07/1991AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 28/07/2000AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 24/09/2004AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 27/02/2009AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 19/08/2011AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 20/04/2015
Companies House
Company number 01712772 · Active
Contact on the register
01722 326867 · info@wessexarch.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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