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Gladstone's Library

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £1.5m (2024)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 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
Education/training, Religious Activities, Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.gladstoneslibrary.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Gladstone's Library
Registered
1989

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£1.5m£1.5m
  • 2023£1.3m£1.4m
  • 2022£1.1m£1.2m
Earlier years
  • 2021£658k£694k
  • 2020£1.3m£655k

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Income source mix, 2021: Government grants 29%. From the charity's annual return.

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.

Grants received

5 grants · £421,367 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 Heritage Fund · £270,783 (3 grants)
  • Garfield Weston Foundation · £100,000
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport · £50,584

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £126,7292024-01-22
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport £50,5842023-03-30
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £100,2002020-08-10
  • Garfield Weston Foundation £100,0002020-07-03
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £43,8542003-04-30
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.

5.2y median 2.5y
average tenure
14y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

14.8y
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

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.
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.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
701399
Status
Registered
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
Companies House
Company number 02363642 · Active
Contact on the register
01244532350 · sarah.robertson@gladlib.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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