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Registered charity · Leicester

The Bradgate Park and Swithland Wood Charity

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £2.6m (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th 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, Environment/conservation/heritage, Recreation
Where
Leicestershire
Website
www.bradgatepark.org (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1963

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£2.6m£2.0m
  • 2024£2.3m£2.1m
  • 2023£2.0m£1.7m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.8m£1.6m
  • 2021£1.9m£1.4m
Charitable objects

A) THE PROVISION OF A PUBLIC PARK AND RECREATION GROUND AND THE MAINTENANCE AND IMPROVEMENT THEREOF FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE COUNTY OF LEICESTERSHIRE AND OF VISITORS THERETO, WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR SUCH PERSONS AND B) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE CARE AND APPRECIATION OF THE ENVIRONMENT. (FOR FURTHER DETAILS SEE SCHEME).

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.

10 trustees on the board

2.2y median 1.5y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

2.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

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.

Education/training 10Environment/conservation/heritage 10Recreation 10

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 1

Gaps to watch

  • Mostly recent joiners - limited long-term continuity

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£2.6m 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.

18.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 5.9 in 2021

68 from 50 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
521476
Status
Registered
Governing document
SCHEME DATED 04 SEP 1980AS AMENDED ON 08 DEC 2008AS AMENDED ON 08 SEP 2014AS AMENDED ON 19 JAN 2018AS AMENDED ON 28 SEP 2020 as amended on 10 Jun 2024
Contact on the register
01162362713 · estate-office@bradgatepark.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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