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Registered charity · Derbyshire

Chatsworth House Trust

Chatsworth House Trust is a registered charity (number 511149) based in Derbyshire, governed by 8 trustees and chaired by Lord William Burlington since 2020. Latest income £19m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 18th October 2026.

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £19m (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
Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage, Recreation
Where
Derbyshire
Website
www.chatsworth.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Chatsworth House Trust
Registered
1981

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£19m£17m
  • 2024£19m£18m
  • 2023£17m£16m
Earlier years
  • 2022£14m£11m
  • 2021£7.4m£10m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

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

Charitable objects

TO PRESERVE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT THE MANSION HOUSE KNOWN AS CHATSWORTH HOUSE IN DERBYSHIRE TOGETHER WITH ITS ANCILLARY BUILDINGS GARDENS ARBORETA WOODLANDS AND PARK ('CHATSWORTH') AND TO PROMOTE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT THE STUDY AND APPRECIATION OF CHATSWORTH AS A PLACE OF HISTORIC AND ARCHITECTURAL INTEREST AND NATURAL BEAUTY. (FOR FURTHER DETAILS SEE MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION).

Grants received

5 grants · £5,364,886 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 · £5,075,173 (2 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £189,713 (2 grants)
  • Garfield Weston Foundation · £100,000

Most recent

  • Garfield Weston Foundation £100,0002025-11-17
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £4,995,1732023-03-01
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £15,0002021-02-01
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £174,7132020-04-01
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £80,0002016-03-15
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.

5.4y median 5y
average tenure
11y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

22.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

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.

Arts/culture/heritage/science 8Environment/conservation/heritage 7Recreation 7Disability 1The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 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.

Arts and leisure 10Education 7Finance 7

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£19.4m 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.

24.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 25.7 in 2021

170 from 127 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
511149
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 23 JANUARY 1981 AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION 22 JULY 1982
Companies House
Company number 01541046 · Active
Contact on the register
01246565300 · info@chatsworth.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 18th October 2026
Labels
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