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Registered charity · Spalding

Holbeach Reading Room

  • 4 trustees
  • Income £19k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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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
Other Charitable Purposes
Where
Lincolnshire
Registered
1963

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£19k£10k
  • 2024£16k£14k
  • 2023£16k£14k
Earlier years
  • 2022£10k£8k
  • 2021£6k£12k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

(A) SUNDAY SCHOOL (B) READING ROOM OR INSTITUTE

Grants received

2 grants · £7,753 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 Community Fund · £4,860
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · £2,893

Most recent

  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £2,8932025-01-01
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £4,8602018-03-26
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.

4 trustees on the board

8y median 8y
average tenure
14y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

4.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (3)

Portfolio (1)

0
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Other Charitable Purposes 4Disability 1The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 1

Gaps to watch

  • No commercial or business experience on the board

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£19k 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
521794
Status
Registered
Governing document
DEED OF GIFT DATED 20TH DECEMBER 1900
Contact on the register
01406426918 · chris5.penney@btinternet.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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