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Registered charity · Leeds

Harewood House Trust Limited

Harewood House Trust Limited is a registered charity (number 517753) based in Leeds, governed by 10 trustees and chaired by Lady Emily Tsering Shard since 2012. Latest income £6.0m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 18th October 2026.

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £6.0m (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, Environment/conservation/heritage, Recreation
Where
Leeds City
Website
www.harewood.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Harewood House Trust Limited
Registered
1986

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£6.0m£5.6m
  • 2024£5.2m£5.3m
  • 2023£4.9m£4.9m
Earlier years
  • 2022£4.5m£4.5m
  • 2021£4.2m£4.0m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2021: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PRESERVE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT THE MANSION HOUSE KNOWN AS HAREWOOD HOUSE IN YORKSHIRE TOGETHER WITH ITS ANCILLARY BUILDINGS, GARDENS, ARBORETA, WOODLANDS AND PARK OR SUCH PARTS THEREOF AS SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME BE HELD BY THE COMPANY, AND TO PROMOTE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT THE STUDY AND APPRECIATION OF HAREWOOD AS A PLACE OF HISTORIC AND ARCHITECTURAL INTEREST AND NATURAL BEAUTY. (FOR FURTHER DETAILS SEE CLAUSE 3A OF THE MEMORANDUM.)

Grants received

13 grants · £2,531,383 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

  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £1,359,287 (4 grants)
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £1,164,112 (8 grants)
  • Department for Work and Pensions · £7,984

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £187,5122023-03-16
  • Department for Work and Pensions £7,9842021-04-01
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £20,8802021-01-17
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £296,1282020-10-23
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £49,7002020-07-06
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.

8.9y median 8y
average tenure
14y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

13.8y
average years in governance
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 10Education/training 10Environment/conservation/heritage 9General 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.

Arts and leisure 10Property 4Other services 2

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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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£5.2m latest income
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.

8.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 0.0 in 2020

132 from 55 in 2020
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
517753
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 25/03/1986AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 04/06/1986AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 22/09/1987AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 03/12/1989AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 05/01/2005AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 30/06/2005AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 04/07/2009AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 27/01/2012AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 15 JAN 2018
Companies House
Company number 02004021 · Active
Contact on the register
01132181010 · info@harewood.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 18th October 2026
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