The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 13th September 2026

Shaftesbury Abbey and Museum Preservation Trust Company Limited

Registered charity 293260 Registered since 1986

Operates: Dorset, Somerset, Wiltshire

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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.

10 trustees on the board

3.4y median 1y
average tenure
12y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (3)

9
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Religious Activities 10Environment/conservation/heritage 9General Charitable Purposes 2Arts/culture/heritage/science 1Recreation 1

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 11Property 4Construction 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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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£110k latest income · income exceeded spending in 2023 and 2024

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

Connected through a shared trustee

Also active in the same field

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitewww.shaftesburyabbey.org.uk
EmailOFFICE@SHAFTESBURYABBEY.ORG.UK
Phone01747852910
AddressShaftesbury Abbey Museum, Shaftesbury Abbey, Park Walk, SHAFTESBURY, Dorset, SP7 8JR

Finances

£110,030 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2020£54,196£65,655
2021£70,702£67,691
2022£79,056£68,491
2023£63,615£62,347
2024£110,030£105,687

What it does

What

Religious ActivitiesEnvironment/conservation/heritage

Who

The General Public/mankind

How

Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space

Charitable objects

TO PRESERVE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PEOPLE OF DORSET AND OF THE NATION AT LARGE, THE LAND PROPERTY AND ANICENT REMAINS KNOWN AS SHAFTESBURY ABBEY, SHAFTESBURY, IN THE COUNTY OF DORSET AND TO MAINTAIN A MUSEUM FOR THE PURPOSES OF DISPLAYING FINDS FROM THE ABBEY SITE.

Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASOCIATION INCORPORATED 25TH NOVEMBER 1985 as amended on 24 Jan 2019 as amended on 23 Apr 2024

Trustees (10)

10trustees
74median age
6aged 70+

Linked company (Companies House)

Shaftesbury Abbey and Museum Preservation Trust Company Limited · 01964697 · Active

PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital) · incorporated 25/11/1985

3 governing document(s) held from Companies House.

Connected charities (3)

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