The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 6th September 2026

Shaftesbury Charitable Trust

Registered charity 900073 Registered since 1989

Operates: Dorset

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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.

5.7y median 5y
average tenure
13y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

4.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (2)

2
company-linked trustees

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

General Charitable Purposes 9Amateur Sport 2Education/training 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.

Arts and leisure 1

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
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incomespending£40k latest income

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.

Related organisations

Connected through a shared trustee

Also active in the same field

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitewww.shaftesburycharitabletrust.co.uk
Emailpeter.harding@SJPP.co.uk
Phone01747853926
Address40 High Street, SHAFTESBURY, SP7 8JG

Finances

£39,720 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£513,412£42,974
2022£44,217£32,659
2023£37,913£25,009
2024£46,415£37,046
2025£39,720£50,355

What it does

What

General Charitable Purposes

Who

Children/young PeopleElderly/old PeoplePeople With DisabilitiesPeople Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial OriginThe General Public/mankind

How

Makes Grants To IndividualsMakes Grants To Organisations

Charitable objects

ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE DIRECTED WHOLLY OR MAINLY TO THE BENEFIT OF SHAFTESBURY IN THE IMMEDIATE NEIGHBOURHOOD OR ANY PART OF SHAFTESBURY AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME IN THEIR DISCRETION DECIDE.

Governing document: DECLARATION OF TRUST DATED 29TH SEPTEMBER 1988

Trustees (9)

9trustees
67median age
1aged 70+

Connected charities (3)

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