Registered charity · Hampshire
Wonderseekers
- 10 trustees
- Income £3.7m (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources
Who leads it
- Dr Janet OwenChair · since 2023
- Dr Rutang ThanawallaTrustee · since 2021
- James SheppardTrustee · since 2025
- Janet MayTrustee · since 2025
- Linda Sharon TaylorTrustee · since 2023
- Malcolm Hugh David KempTrustee · since 2023
- Phyllida Mary JamesTrustee · since 2021
- Robert WaymanTrustee · since 2026
- Tariro Yvonne RowlandTrustee · since 2023
- Thomas WymanTrustee · since 2023
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
- Throughout England
- Website
- www.winchestersciencecentre.org (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Wonderseekers
- Registered
- 1986
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£3.7m£3.9m
- 2024£3.8m£3.3m
- 2023£3.5m£3.4m
Earlier years
- 2022£3.6m£2.9m
- 2021£1.5m£1.8m
Charitable objects
TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION, KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE PUBLIC IN PARTICULAR THE YOUNG, IN BASIC TECHNOLOGICAL AND SCIENTIFIC PRINCIPLES AND PROCESSES, PARTICULARLY THROUGH THE IMPROVEMENT OF LINKS BETWEEN INDUSTRIAL COMMERCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL BODIES AND INSTITUTIONS.
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.
10 trustees on the board
- Dr Janet Owen Chair since 2023
- Dr Rutang Thanawalla since 2021
- James Sheppard since 2025
- Janet May since 2025
- Linda Sharon Taylor since 2023
- Malcolm Hugh David Kemp since 2023
- Phyllida Mary James since 2021
- Robert Wayman since 2026
- Tariro Yvonne Rowland since 2023
- Thomas Wyman since 2023
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (8)
- Dr Janet Owen Chair since 2023
- James Sheppard since 2025
- Janet May since 2025
- Linda Sharon Taylor since 2023
- Phyllida Mary James since 2021
- Robert Wayman since 2026
- Tariro Yvonne Rowland since 2023
- Thomas Wyman since 2023
Portfolio (2)
- Dr Rutang Thanawalla since 2021
- Malcolm Hugh David Kemp since 2023
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.
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
0.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 0.0 in 2021
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 294582
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 28/04/1986AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 10/09/2015 as amended on 20 Nov 2018 as amended on 30 Jan 2020 as amended on 19 Oct 2022 as amended on 20 Feb 2026
- Companies House
- Company number 02014929 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 01962863791 · info@winchestersciencecentre.org
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 20th 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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