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Registered charity · Macclesfield

The Silk Heritage Trust

  • 17 trustees
  • Income £635k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources

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
Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage, Recreation
Where
Cheshire East
Website
www.silkmacclesfield.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Silk Heritage Trust
Registered
1987

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£635k£670k
  • 2024£555k£399k
  • 2023£361k£471k
Earlier years
  • 2022£498k£455k
  • 2021£405k£345k
Charitable objects

1) TO ADVANCEMENT OF THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC BY THE PROVISION OF MUSEUM AND ANCILLARY FACILITIES. 2) ANY OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC.

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.

17 trustees on the board

3.5y median 1y
average tenure
14y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

5.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (17)

15
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 17Education/training 17Environment/conservation/heritage 17

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 15Business services 1Finance 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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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.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£635k 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.

26.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 9.3 in 2021

7 from 5 in 2024
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
519521
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 23/10/1987AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 06/12/2004AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 20/10/2008AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 06/09/2010AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 09/07/2012
Companies House
Company number 02182687 · Active
Contact on the register
01625613210 · director@silkmacclesfield.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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