Registered charity · Keighley

The Bronte Society

12 trustees
Income £1.8m (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources

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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
Where: Throughout England And Wales
Website: www.bronte.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company: The Bronte Society
Registered: 1964

Income and spending

YearIncomeSpending
2025£1.8m£1.4m
2024£1.6m£1.2m
2023£5.9m£1.4m

Earlier years

2021£990k£877k
2020£1.1m£1.0m

Income trend, 2020 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 37%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE SOCIETY ARE;TO PROMOTE INTEREST IN THE LIFE AND WORKS OF THE BRONTE FAMILY IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY ESTABLISHING AND MAINTAINING PERMANENT MUSEUMS, GALLERIES AND LIBRARIES FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT;TO ACQUIRE BY DONATION, PURCHASE, OR OTHERWISE, AND TO RENOVATE AND PRESERVE ARTEFACTS, BOOKS, PAMPHLETS, MANUSCRIPTS, ENGRAVINGS, PAINTINGS, DRAWINGS, PHOTOGRAPHS, CLOTHING, FURNITURE AND OTHER OBJECTS OF OR RELATING TO THE BRONTE FAMILY, AND IF THOUGHT FIT, OF OTHER AUTHORS, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT;TO PROVIDE FOR THE EXAMINATION OF THE LITERARY REMAINS FOR FURTHER SCHOLARSHIP AND BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE LIVES AND WORKS OF THE BRONTES AND THEIR WRITING AND IF THOUGHT FIT, OF OTHER AUTHORS, AND PUBLICATION OF THE MEMOIRS OF THE BRONTE FAMILY AND OTHER AUTHORS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT;TO PROMOTE THE ADVANCEMENT OF LITERATURE AND THE ARTS AND TO INITIATE PROJECTS THAT DEEPEN LITERARY ENGAGEMENT LOCALLY, NATIONALLY AND THROUGHOUT THE WORLD AND WHICH ARE RENDERED INTERESTING BY THEIR ASSOCIATION WITH THE BRONTE FAMILY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT;TO DO ALL SUCH THINGS AS ARE INCIDENTAL OR CONDUCTIVE TO THE ATTAINMENT OF THE ABOVE OBJECTS

Grants received

13 grants · £1,550,208 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 · £1,229,556 (3 grants)
The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £300,652 (9 grants)
Garfield Weston Foundation · £20,000

Most recent

Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £236,7782021-12-13
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £756,0002019-10-29
Garfield Weston Foundation £20,0002019-06-18
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £236,7782017-06-08
The National Lottery Heritage Fund £10,0002013-10-22

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.

12 trustees on the board

3.1y median 2.5y

average tenure

longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

Helen Clare Meller since 2018

6.2y

average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (2)

Andrew Midgley since 2021
Eleanor Clare Keel since 2024

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 12Education/training 12Environment/conservation/heritage 12

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 13Finance 12Retail and trade 4

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.

2020

2021

2023

2024

2025

incomespending£1.8m 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.

4.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 2.3 in 2020

40 from 39 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: 529952
Status: Registered
Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 28/05/1902AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 14/04/1964AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 31/10/1970AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 06/06/1992AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 06/06/1998AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 06/06/2000AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 05/06/2004AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 14/10/2006NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 04/06/2011AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 06/06/2015AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 11 JUN 2016AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 10 JUN 2017AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 27 JUN 2018
Companies House: Company number 00073855 · Active
Contact on the register: 01535 642323 · bronte@bronte.org.uk
Edition: Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels: Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.

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