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Registered charity · West Yorkshire

The Gissing Trust

  • 5 trustees
  • Income £446 (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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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
Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
City Of Wakefield
Registered
1980

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£446£252
  • 2024£970£252
  • 2023£970£252
Earlier years
  • 2022£820£252
  • 2021£271£250

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE LITERARY EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC BY PROVIDING IN THE FORMER HOME OF THE VICTORIAN NOVELIST GEORGE GISSING A CENTRE TO FACILITATE THE STUDY OF HIS WORK AND THE LITERARY HISTORY OF WAKEFIELD AND DISTRICT.

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

0y median 0y
average tenure
0y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
5.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (3)

Portfolio (2)

1
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 5Education/training 1Environment/conservation/heritage 1General Charitable Purposes 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.

Education 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£446 latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
509607
Status
Registered
Governing document
DECLARATION OF TRUST DATED 27 NOVEMBER 1979
Contact on the register
07896249884 · famtaylor@hotmail.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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