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Registered charity · Guildford

Watts Gallery Trust

Watts Gallery Trust is a registered charity (number 313612) based in Guildford, governed by 8 trustees and chaired by Sarah Katherine King since 2023. Latest income £2.8m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 18th October 2026.

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £2.8m (2025)
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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, Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Surrey
Website
www.wattsgallery.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Watts Gallery Trust
Registered
1967

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£2.8m£3.4m
  • 2024£2.6m£3.1m
  • 2023£2.6m£3.2m
Earlier years
  • 2022£2.7m£3.2m
  • 2021£3.0m£2.9m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2022: Government grants 6%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE:1.TO PROMOTE ART FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY THE ESTABLISHMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF THE WATTS ART GALLERY;2. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE SUBJECT OF ART;3.TO PRESERVE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC THE WATTS ART GALLERY, ITS GROUNDS AND OTHER BUILDINGS ASSOCIATED WITH GEORGE FREDERIC AND MARY WATTS AS BUILDINGS OF HISTORIC, ARCHITECTURAL OR CONSTRUCTIONAL INTEREST (THE “OBJECTS”).

Grants received

36 grants · £9,798,092 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.

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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.

8 trustees on the board

1.6y median 2y
average tenure
3y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
10.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (1)

8
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Arts/culture/heritage/science 8Education/training 8

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 10Health and social care 3Retail and trade 3

Gaps to watch

  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

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£2.8m latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

0.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 8.4 in 2021

88 from 73 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
313612
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 08 MAR 2007AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 12 SEP 2011AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 06 JUN 2022AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 28 SEP 2023
Companies House
Company number 06147572 · Active
Contact on the register
01483810235 · info@wattsgallery.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 18th October 2026
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