Registered charity · Exeter
Devon Rural Skills Trust
- 8 trustees
- Income £14k (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
- Education/training, Environment/conservation/heritage
- Where
- Devon
- Website
- www.drst.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 1985
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£14k£12k
- 2024£13k£16k
- 2023£8k£15k
Earlier years
- 2022£10k£8k
- 2021£3k£4k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Charitable objects
TO PROMOTE PRESERVATION OF RURAL CRAFTS AND SKILLS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT PROVIDING AND PROMOTING THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, INSTRUCTION AND TRAINING IN ALL SUCH RURAL SKILLS AND CRAFTS AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR DISCRETION CONSIDER WORTHY OF PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION.
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.
8 trustees on the board
- Alan Cooper since 2013
- Chris Baker since 2017
- David Dingle since 2013
- Donald William Gaskins
- Laura Tunstall Murray since 2017
- Mark Joynes since 2024
- Nick Dawe since 2013
- Nic Kirkham since 2024
Trustees past 6 years
- Alan Cooper since 2013
- Chris Baker since 2017
- David Dingle since 2013
- Laura Tunstall Murray since 2017
- Nick Dawe since 2013
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (6)
- Chris Baker since 2017
- David Dingle since 2013
- Donald William Gaskins
- Laura Tunstall Murray since 2017
- Mark Joynes since 2024
- Nic Kirkham since 2024
Portfolio (2)
- Alan Cooper since 2013
- Nick Dawe since 2013
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
- 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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Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 292969
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- DECLARATION OF TRUST DATED 27TH SEPTEMBER 1985
- Contact on the register
- 07815189911 · payments@drst.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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