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Registered charity · Singleton

Weald and Downland Open AIR Museum Limited

Weald and Downland Open AIR Museum Limited is a registered charity (number 306338) based in Singleton, governed by 9 trustees. Latest income £3.4m (2024). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 18th October 2026.

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £3.4m (2024)
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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
East Sussex, Hampshire, Kent, Surrey and more
Website
www.wealddown.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Weald and Downland Open AIR Museum Limited
Registered
1969

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£3.4m£3.8m
  • 2023£3.5m£3.9m
  • 2022£3.6m£3.7m
Earlier years
  • 2021£3.0m£2.5m
  • 2020£2.9m£2.7m

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Income source mix, 2022: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE AND ENCOURAGE THE PRESERVATION OF BUILDING OF ARCHITECTURAL OR HISTORICAL INTEREST AND TO STIMULATE PUBLIC INTEREST IN ANCIENT CRAFTS TRADES, AND MANUFACTURERS AND TO ESTABLISH CENTRES FOR THE STUDY O HISTORICAL BUILDINGS AND ARTEFACTS AND TO PROMOTE RESEARCH INTO THE BEST MEANS OF PRESERVING, RESTORING AND RECORDING THEM.

Grants received

10 grants · £6,394,955 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 · £6,338,355 (8 grants)
  • Garfield Weston Foundation · £50,000
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £6,600

Most recent

  • Garfield Weston Foundation £50,0002022-12-16
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £550,0002017-03-20
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £85,8002016-01-27
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £9,8002014-03-28
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £4,236,0002013-03-26
Board analysis

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

4.9y median 6y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

9.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (2)

8
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 2

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 13Retail and trade 6Finance 5

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

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£3.4m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2023 and 2024
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.

3.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 4.5 in 2020

58 from 40 in 2020
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
306338
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION DATED 20 JANUARY 1969, AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS DATED 28 NOVEMBER 1985, 2 JUNE 1987, 8 APRIL 1991, 7 JULY 1994, 16JUNE 1997 AND 24 NOVEMBER 2003.AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 18 SEP 2017
Companies House
Company number 00946307 · Active
Contact on the register
01243811024 · accountant@wealddown.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 18th October 2026
Labels
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