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The Kelmarsh Trust

Registered charity 295154 Registered since 1986

Operates: Northamptonshire

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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.

4.3y median 3y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

17.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

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.

Education/training 9Environment/conservation/heritage 9General Charitable Purposes 1Religious Activities 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.

Property 18Arts and leisure 8Construction 6

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.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£1.3m 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.

2.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 55.2 in 2021

12 from 9 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.

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

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Contact

Websitewww.kelmarsh.com
Emaillesleydenton@kelmarsh.com
Phone01604686543
AddressKelmarsh Hall, Main Road, Kelmarsh, Northampton, NN6 9LY

Finances

£1,339,930 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£1,133,386£849,828
2022£1,212,437£1,013,088
2023£1,071,995£1,174,085
2024£1,079,857£1,057,793
2025£1,339,930£1,301,459

What it does

What

Education/trainingEnvironment/conservation/heritage

Who

The General Public/mankind

How

Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space

Charitable objects

THE GENERAL OBJECT OF THE TRUST IS THE ADVANCEMENT OF HISTORIC AND AESTHETIC EDUCATION, AND FOR THE PURPOSE OF CARRYING OUT THAT GENERAL OBJECT THE PRIMARY OBJECTS OF THE TRUST ARE IN PARTICULAR:- (A) TO PRESERVE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE NATION MONUMENTS BUILDINGS OF NATIONAL HISTORIC OR ARCHITECTURAL OR ARTISTIC INTEREST AND IMPORTANCE ANDTO PROTECT AND IMPROVE THE AMENITIES OF SUCH BUILDINGS AND THEIR SURROUNDINGS. (B) TO PRESERVE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE NATION AND AS AN ADJUNCT TO ANY SUCH BUILDINGS AS AFORESAID FURNITURE PICTURES AND OTHER CHATTELS OF NATIONAL HISTORIC OR ARTISTIC INTEREST. (C) TO FACILITATE THE ACCESS TO AND THE STUDY AND APPLICATION OF SUCH BUILDINGS (AND THEIR SURROUNDINGS) FURNITURE PICTURES AND CHATTELS AS AFORESAID BY THE GENERAL PUBLIC.

Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORTED 15TH OCTOBER 1982 AS AMENDED 29TH AUGUST 1986 AS AMENDED 30TH NOVEMBER 1989 AS AMENDED 5 DECEMBER 2013 NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 10 MAY 2017 as amended on 05 Aug 2024

Trustees (9)

9trustees
70median age
6aged 70+

Linked company (Companies House)

The Kelmarsh Trust · 01672106 · Active

PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital) · incorporated 15/10/1982

6 governing document(s) held from Companies House.

Connected charities (3)

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