Registered charity · Kent
Canterbury Oast Trust
The objects for which the Trust is established are to provide for the training, instruction, employment, future living, occupation, accommodation, sustenance, maintenance and care of people with a learning disability, or Autism, whether or not they...
- 7 trustees
- Income £7.9m (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources
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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
- Disability
- Where
- Kent
- Website
- www.canterburyoasttrust.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Canterbury Oast Trust
- Registered
- 1985
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£7.9m£8.9m
- 2024£7.6m£8.3m
- 2023£6.6m£8.2m
Earlier years
- 2022£6.7m£6.5m
- 2021£6.9m£5.9m
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 62%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
The objects for which the Trust is established are to provide for the training, instruction, employment, future living, occupation, accommodation, sustenance, maintenance and care of people with a learning disability, or Autism, whether or not they have any other disability (hereinafter referred to as “Beneficiaries”) and who have difficulty in attaining, or are unable to attain, a normal standard of education, training and general ability and capacity by or through ordinary methods of educational training and who are in need of help and care by the provision of special training, day care or accommodation, or other means, to enable the Beneficiaries to live happy and useful lives and with the intent that the Beneficiaries may be helped and enabled to contribute as far as possible to the wellbeing and maintenance of themselves individually, or to the wellbeing and maintenance of any group or community to which they may belong or in which they may be living
Grants received
7 grants · £158,249 total360Giving 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
- Henry Smith Foundation · £75,000
- Mark Leonard Trust · £43,429 (3 grants)
- Vivensa Foundation · £20,000
- Garfield Weston Foundation · £15,000
- The National Lottery Community Fund · £4,820
Most recent
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.
7 trustees on the board
- Colette Dunn since 2025
- Daniel Gower-Smith since 2023
- Fiona Ash since 2023
- Michaela Louise Tweedley since 2017
- Michele Allchin since 2022
- Nicholas John Teunon since 2025
- Sophy Catherine Hazevoet since 2020
Trustees past 6 years
- Michaela Louise Tweedley since 2017
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (6)
- Daniel Gower-Smith since 2023
- Fiona Ash since 2023
- Michaela Louise Tweedley since 2017
- Michele Allchin since 2022
- Nicholas John Teunon since 2025
- Sophy Catherine Hazevoet since 2020
Portfolio (1)
- Colette Dunn since 2025
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
2.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 7.2 in 2021
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 291662
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 19/03/1985AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 24/07/1988AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 25/09/1994AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 09/10/2004AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 08/10/2005AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 12/10/2013AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 10 OCT 2015AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 07 OCT 2017AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 06 OCT 2018 as amended on 16 Oct 2021 as amended on 20 Apr 2024
- Companies House
- Company number 01897198 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 01233861493 · info@canterburyoasttrust.org.uk
- 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.
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