The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 13th September 2026

The Trollope Society

Registered charity 803130 Registered since 1990

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.

6 trustees on the board

7.2y median 5.5y
average tenure
15y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

11.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (3)

Portfolio (3)

2
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 6Arts/culture/heritage/science 5Accommodation/housing 1General Charitable Purposes 1Religious Activities 1The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Business services 1Other services 1

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  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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£60k latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025

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.

Connected through a shared trustee

Also active in the same field

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitewww.trollopesociety.org
Emailinfo@trollopesociety.org
Phone01892542921
Address21 Oak Road, Tunbridge Wells, TN2 3AN

Finances

£60,205 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£61,322£48,000
2022£51,581£49,878
2023£55,449£53,871
2024£72,477£67,584
2025£60,205£47,114

What it does

What

Education/trainingArts/culture/heritage/science

Who

The General Public/mankind

How

Other Charitable Activities

Charitable objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE LIFE AND WORK OF THE AUTHOR ANTHONY TROLLOPE (1815-1882) AND SUBJECT THERETO AND IN DEFAULT THEROF FOR SUCH PURPOSE AS SHALL BE A LAWFUL CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION SHALL DIRECT.

Governing document: DECLARATION OF TRUST DATED 1ST SEPTEMBER 1987 AS VARIED BY DEED DATED 20TH MARCH 1990

Trustees (6)

6trustees
64median age
1aged 70+

Connected charities (4)

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