Registered charity · Lincolnshire
Grimsthorpe and Drummond Castle Trust Limited
- 8 trustees
- Income £4.3m (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources
Who leads it
- Sarah TroughtonChair · since 2021
- Baroness Willoughby DE EresbyTrustee · since 2005
- Caroline ButlerTrustee · since 2021
- Hugh Patrick MathesonTrustee · since 2010
- Richard Calvocoressi CBETrustee · since 2005
- Roderick James Nugent StewartTrustee · since 2023
- Sebastian MillerTrustee · since 2012
- SIR Mark JonesTrustee · since 2012
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage
- Where
- Lincolnshire, Scotland
- Website
- www.grimsthorpe.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Grimsthorpe & Drummond Castle Trust Limited
- Registered
- 1978
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£4.3m£4.1m
- 2024£3.8m£3.5m
- 2023£8.2m£3.9m
Earlier years
- 2022£3.0m£4.1m
- 2021£2.6m£2.8m
Charitable objects
TO ADVANCE EDUCATION, TO ADVANCE PROMOTE AND AID SUCH OTHER PURPOSES AS ARE RECOGNISED TO BE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE.
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.
8 trustees on the board
- Sarah Troughton Chair since 2021
- Baroness Willoughby DE Eresby since 2005
- Caroline Butler since 2021
- Hugh Patrick Matheson since 2010
- Richard Calvocoressi CBE since 2005
- Roderick James Nugent Stewart since 2023
- Sebastian Miller since 2012
- SIR Mark Jones since 2012
12.4y median 14y
average tenure
21y
longest tenure
Trustees past 6 years
- Baroness Willoughby DE Eresby since 2005
- Hugh Patrick Matheson since 2010
- Richard Calvocoressi CBE since 2005
- Sebastian Miller since 2012
- SIR Mark Jones since 2012
24.9y
average years in governance
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (5)
- Sarah Troughton Chair since 2021
- Baroness Willoughby DE Eresby since 2005
- Caroline Butler since 2021
- Roderick James Nugent Stewart since 2023
- Sebastian Miller since 2012
Portfolio (3)
- Hugh Patrick Matheson since 2010
- Richard Calvocoressi CBE since 2005
- SIR Mark Jones since 2012
6
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 8General Charitable Purposes 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 11Agriculture 7Other services 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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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
incomespending£4.3m latest income · income exceeded spending 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.
26.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 15.0 in 2021
52 from 43 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
- 507478
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 9 MARCH 1978 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS DATED 6 APRIL 1978, 14 DECEMBER 2005 AND 11 DECEMBER 2007
- Companies House
- Company number 01356661 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 01778591205 · sebastianmiller@grimsthorpe.co.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 13th September 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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