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City Discovery Centre

Registered charity 297397 Registered since 1987

Operates: Throughout England

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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.

9 trustees on the board

4y median 3y
average tenure
10y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

Portfolio (1)

4
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 1Religious Activities 1The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 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 2Education 1Health and social care 1

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£377k latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025

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.mkcdc.org.uk
Emailinformation@mkcdc.org.uk
Phone01908 227229
AddressCity Discovery Centre, The Farmhouse, Bradwell Abbey, MILTON KEYNES

Finances

£377,180 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£409,442£380,798
2022£245,922£287,797
2023£350,826£318,902
2024£377,373£397,671
2025£377,180£514,487

What it does

What

General Charitable PurposesEducation/trainingArts/culture/heritage/scienceEnvironment/conservation/heritageEconomic/community Development/employmentOther Charitable Purposes

Who

Children/young PeopleElderly/old PeoplePeople With DisabilitiesOther Charities Or Voluntary BodiesOther Defined GroupsThe General Public/mankind

How

Provides Buildings/facilities/open SpaceProvides ServicesProvides Advocacy/advice/informationOther Charitable Activities

Charitable objects

(I) TO MAINTAIN, PROMOTE, FACILITATE, IMPROVE AND DEVELOP THE STUDY OF ARCHEOLOGY, HISTORY, AND THE NATURAL AND MAN-MADE ENVIROMENT AND (II) TO MAINTAIN, PRESERVE, RESTORE, CONSERVE, IMPROVE AND ENHANCE BUILDINGS, SITES, FEATURES AND OBJECTS OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL, HISTORICAL, ECOLOGICAL, ARTISTIC, SOCIAL OF SCIENTIFIC INTEREST IN MILTON KEYNES AND ITS ENVIRONS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF AND VISITORS TO MILTON KEYNES AND ITS ENVIRONS.

Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORTED 17TH FEBRUARY 1987, AS AMENDED 28TH JULY 1987

Trustees (9)

9trustees
69median age
4aged 70+

Linked company (Companies House)

City Discovery Centre · 02108180 · Active

PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital) · incorporated 09/03/1987

6 governing document(s) held from Companies House.

Connected charities (1)

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