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Registered charity · Kent

The Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £9.8m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 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
Education/training, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Medway
Website
www.thedockyard.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust
Registered
1985

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£9.8m£9.5m
  • 2024£9.6m£9.5m
  • 2023£9.8m£8.6m
Earlier years
  • 2022£6.8m£7.8m
  • 2021£5.9m£6.5m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2024: Government grants 10%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

1. TO SECURE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT THE PRESERVATION AND USE OF THE HISTORIC DOCKYARD AT CHATHAM IN THE COUNTY OF KENT IN A MANNER APPROPRIATE TO ITS ARCHAEOLOGICAL, HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE. 2. TO PROMOTE AND FOSTER FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT A WIDE KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL, HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE HISTORIC DOCKYARD.

Grants received

47 grants · £32,001,319 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

  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £27,988,288 (29 grants)
  • Department for Culture, Media and Sport · £1,512,000 (2 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £991,508 (5 grants)
  • Garfield Weston Foundation · £677,500 (4 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport · £512,250 (3 grants)

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.

5.9y median 6y
average tenure
10y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

19.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (5)

Portfolio (4)

8
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 9Environment/conservation/heritage 8General Charitable Purposes 3Religious Activities 2

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 17Construction 7Education 5

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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£9.8m 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.

1.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 2.6 in 2021

150 from 140 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
292101
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 28 MAR 1984AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 12 JUN 1985AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 07 MAY 1997AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 16 DEC 2003AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 27 FEB 2013AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 18 JUL 2017AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 24 MAY 2018 as amended on 24 Nov 2022
Companies House
Company number 01804108 · Active
Contact on the register
01634823800 · info@chdt.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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