The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 6th September 2026

Gladstone's Library

Registered charity 701399 Registered since 1989

Operates: Throughout England And Wales

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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.

5.2y median 2.5y
average tenure
14y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

14.7y
average years in governance
9
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 10Religious Activities 10Arts/culture/heritage/science 8General Charitable Purposes 2

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 23Arts and leisure 11Professional services 5

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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
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£1.5m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2023 and 2024
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.

7.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 2.5 in 2020

42 from 22 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.

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

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Also active in the same field

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Contact

Websitewww.gladstoneslibrary.org
Emailsarah.robertson@gladlib.org
Phone01244532350
AddressGLADSTONE'S LIBRARY, CHURCH LANE, HAWARDEN, DEESIDE, CH5 3DF

Finances

£1,502,266 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2020£1,347,245£654,812
2021£657,519£694,217
2022£1,107,376£1,173,957
2023£1,305,105£1,398,165
2024£1,502,266£1,537,701

What it does

What

Education/trainingReligious ActivitiesArts/culture/heritage/science

Who

The General Public/mankind

How

Provides Human ResourcesProvides Buildings/facilities/open Space

Charitable objects

THE PROMOTION OF RELIGION AND EDUCATION AND THE PROMOTION OF DIVINE LEARNING IN CONNECTION WITH THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND AND THE CHURCH IN WALES AS HISTORICAL BRANCHES OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND IN CONFORMITY TO THE LIVING SPIRIT OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND AND THE CHURCH IN WALES.THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY THE MAINTENANCE AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE GLADSTONE'S LIBRARY COLLECTIONS, THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF RESEARCH, WRITING AND DEBATE ON GLADSTONE'S CORE SUBJECTS: THEOLOGY AND SPIRITUALITY, HISTORY, CURRENT AFFAIRS AND CONTEMPORARY AND CLASSICAL LITERARY CULTURE.

Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 21/03/1989AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 23/09/2010AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 08/04/2015

Trustees (10)

10trustees
56median age
1aged 70+

Linked company (Companies House)

Gladstone's Library · 02363642 · Active

PRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of 'Limited' exemption) · incorporated 21/03/1989

6 governing document(s) held from Companies House.

Connected charities (3)

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