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Registered charity · Hampshire

The Spring Arts and Heritage Centre

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £712k (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th 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, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage, Recreation
Where
Hampshire, West Sussex
Website
www.thespring.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Spring Arts & Heritage Centre CO
Registered
1987

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£712k£667k
  • 2024£683k£707k
  • 2023£554k£717k
Earlier years
  • 2022£609k£570k
  • 2021£600k£337k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 28%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC THE ADVANCEMENT OF KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF ARTS, HERITAGE AND CULTURE AMONG THE INHABITANTS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IN PARTICULAR AMONG THE INHABITANTS OF THE BOROUGH OF HAVANT AND THE SURROUNDING LOCALITY.

Grants received

19 grants · £1,059,688 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 · £400,006 (6 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £290,716 (3 grants)
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport · £277,416 (3 grants)
  • Garfield Weston Foundation · £60,000 (3 grants)
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £31,550 (4 grants)

Most recent

  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport £33,0002024-10-17
  • Garfield Weston Foundation £20,0002024-01-12
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport £122,2082022-10-13
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport £122,2082022-10-13
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £125,9062022-08-10
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

1.5y median 1y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

4.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

Portfolio (1)

10
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 10Arts/culture/heritage/science 9Environment/conservation/heritage 9Economic/community Development/employment 1General Charitable Purposes 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 11Hospitality 2Other services 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.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£712k latest income
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.

1.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 11.1 in 2021

19 from 15 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
297353
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 12/01/1987AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 29/06/2010AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 27/11/2014
Companies House
Company number 02088483 · Active
Contact on the register
023 9224 7000 · info@thespring.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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