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Registered charity · Fordingbridge

The Bentley Wood Charitable Trust

  • 6 trustees
  • Income £342k (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, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Hampshire, Wiltshire
Registered
1984

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£342k£234k
  • 2024£295k£235k
  • 2023£201k£170k
Earlier years
  • 2022£140k£157k
  • 2021£270k£171k
Charitable objects

FOR SUCH PURPOSES AS ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES AND IN PARTICULAR THE RELIEF OF POVERTY THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, OTHER PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE UNITED KINGDOM COMMUNITY WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO ENVIRONMENTAL PRESERVATION.

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 trustees on the board

7y median 6y
average tenure
11y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

11.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

2
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 6Environment/conservation/heritage 6

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 1Education 1Other services 1

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together
  • 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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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£342k latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
288749
Status
Registered
Governing document
DEED OF SETTLEMENT DATED 31 JANUARY 1984
Contact on the register
07968340717 · bentley.lambert@btinternet.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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