Registered charity · Sheffield
The Knossos Trust
The Knossos Trust is a registered charity (number 327762) based in Sheffield, governed by 5 trustees and chaired by Professor John Bennet since 2023. Latest income £0 (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 4th October 2026.
- 5 trustees
- Income £0 (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 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
- Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Where
- Oxfordshire, Greece, Italy
- Registered
- 1988
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£0£28k
- 2024£0£28k
- 2023£20k£27k
Earlier years
- 2022£92k£32k
- 2021£0£7k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Charitable objects
(1) THE ADVANCEMENT OF PUBLIC EDUCATION BY (I) THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATION AND RESEARCH INTO THE MINOAN BRONZE AGE OF CRETE WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE SITE OF KNOSSOS AND THE DISSEMINATION OF THE USEFUL RESULTS THEREOF (II) THE STUDY OF AND RESEARCH INTO THE PRE-HISTORY OF GREECE OR ANY OTHER PART OF THE MEDITERRANEAN REGION AND THE DISSEMINATION OF THE USEFUL RESULTS THEREOF. (III) THE STUDY OF AND RESEARCH INTO THE HISTORY GENERALLY OF THE MEDITERRANEAN REGION AND THE DISSEMINATION OF THE USEFUL RESULTS THEREOF. (2) SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES, CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS OR CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONS IN SUCH MANNER AND IN SUCH PROPORTIONS AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION THINK FIT.
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.
5 trustees on the board
- Professor John Bennet Chair since 2023
- Andrew John Shapland since 2019
- Martin Sinclair Hood
- Professor Nicoletta Momigliano since 2023
- Professor Peter Michael Warren FBA FSA
Trustees past 6 years
- Andrew John Shapland since 2019
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (5)
- Professor John Bennet Chair since 2023
- Andrew John Shapland since 2019
- Martin Sinclair Hood
- Professor Nicoletta Momigliano since 2023
- Professor Peter Michael Warren FBA FSA
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Gaps to watch
- No commercial or business experience on the board
- Narrow spread of causes across the board
- Mostly recent joiners - limited long-term continuity
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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 327762
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- TRUST DEED DATED 13 MARCH 1988
- Contact on the register
- 01844279202
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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