HAMPSHIRE CULTURAL TRUST

Registered charity 1158583 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HCT

The trust champions world-class culture and exists to showcase, connect and empower Hampshire's creative economy. The charity works collaboratively to bring organisations, people and ideas together for greater impact.Our visionWe will strive to be the champion of world-class culture in Hampshire Our missionTo showcase, connect and empower Hampshire?s culture and creative economy

Objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTIVES (THE OBJECTS) ARE:(A) TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN AND IMPROVE THE PUBLIC'S UNDERSTANDING AND APPRECIATION OF THE ARTS, INCLUDING BY:(I) ESTABLISHING AND MAINTAINING MUSEUMS AND ART GALLERIES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC;(II) PROVIDING COMMUNITY ARTS CENTRES AND COMMUNITY ARTS PROGRAMMES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC; AND(III) BY SUCH OTHER MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES MAY DETERMINE; AND(B) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE HISTORY AND HERITAGE OF HAMPSHIRE AND THE WIDER AREA OF THE SOUTH OF ENGLAND, INCLUDING BY:(I) ACQUIRING, PRESERVING AND EXHIBITING, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, LANDS AND TENEMENTS (INCLUDING BUILDINGS) OF BEAUTY OR HISTORIC INTEREST WITH A VIEW TO EDUCATING THE PUBLIC IN THE HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF SUCH LANDS AND TENEMENTS IN THE HERITAGE OF THE NATION AND THE LOCAL AREA;(II) PRESERVING, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, FURNITURE, PICTURES AND CHATTELS OF ANY DESCRIPTION HAVING NATIONAL AND LOCAL HISTORIC OR ARTISTIC INTEREST WITH A VIEW TO EDUCATING THE PUBLIC IN THE HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF SUCH FURNITURE, PICTURES AND CHATTELS IN THE HERITAGE OF THE NATION AND THE LOCAL AREA; AND(III) BY SUCH OTHER MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES MAY DETERMINE.

Area of benefit: HAMPSHIRE

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Winchester, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Trust recorded a consolidated deficit of £407,693 for the year ended 31 March 2025, primarily driven by significant depreciation costs of £243,055. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted net assets totalled £847,864, with free cash reserves of £737,515, which remains below the Trust's stated reserves policy target of £1,000,000. Despite the deficit, the Trust maintained a healthy closing cash position of £1,993,036 and confirmed it is a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by PKF Francis Clark. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Hampshire Cultural Trust offers refunds after 'Fake Santa' grotto criticised hampshirechronicle.co.uk · 05/12/2024
• Hampshire Cultural Trust on the hunt for this years best young poets hampshirechronicle.co.uk · 28/02/2024
• Hampshire Cultural Trust searching for next Hampshire Poet hampshirechronicle.co.uk · 13/12/2023
• Hampshire Cultural Trust announces programme of Winchester Christmas events hampshirechronicle.co.uk · 16/11/2023
• Founder trustees honoured by Hampshire Cultural Trust hampshirechronicle.co.uk · 20/10/2023
• Hampshire cultural trust warns over museum closures hellorayo.co.uk · 19/09/2023
• Hampshire Cultural Trust given £80,000 grant due to 'extraordinary' rise in costs hampshirechronicle.co.uk · 07/09/2023
• Hampshire Cultural Trust says it is ‘financially stable’ despite potential staff cuts hampshirechronicle.co.uk · 17/01/2023

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 08986225
• Trading subsidiary: HAMPSHIRE CULTURAL TRUST TRADING LTD Companies House 09257219

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Paul Sapwell — Chief Executive (source)
• Tom Wright CBE — Chair (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• The Covenant Fund — “The project was funded through the Covenant Fund and run with support from Rushmoor Borough Council.” (source page)

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• DONNELLY, Christopher David — director, appointed 24/07/2026on trustee list
• EMINTON, David Edward — director, appointed 08/04/2026on trustee list
• WRIGHT, Thomas Charles Knox — director, appointed 27/01/2025on trustee list
• CROXFORD, James Robert Zalles — director, appointed 14/06/2023on trustee list
• BRETT, Mark Torr — director, appointed 25/05/2023on trustee list
• CHILLMAN, Karen Davina — director, appointed 25/05/2023on trustee list
• MILLER, Claire Benita — director, appointed 24/02/2023on trustee list
• MCNAUGHTAN, Anthony Hugh — director, appointed 01/07/2022on trustee list
• THOMPSON, Lucille Diane — director, appointed 30/07/2021on trustee list
• BLACKMAN, Anna — director, appointed 25/09/2020on trustee list
• BACK, Emma — director, appointed 14/04/2019on trustee list
• WINKWORTH, James — director, appointed 14/04/2019on trustee list
• DONKIN, Victoria Elizabeth — secretary, appointed 15/05/2025

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

11 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (81% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 20.4% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (25/09/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (09/05/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Thomas Charles Knox Wrightchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Anna Blackman
• Anthony Hugh McNaughtan
• Christopher David Donnelly
• Claire Benita Miller
• Councillor Lucille Diane Thompson
• David Edward Eminton
• Emma Back
• James Winkworth · trustee of 1 other charity
• Mark Torr Brett · trustee of 1 other charity

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Hampshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HAMPSHIRE CRICKET FOUNDATION.

• HAMPSHIRE CRICKET FOUNDATION income £96k
• THE HAMPSHIRE BUILDINGS PRESERVATION TRUST LIMITED income £862k
• THE HAMPSTEAD CHURCH MUSIC TRUST income £114k
• CREATIVE CULTURE TRUST CIO income £51k
• HAMPSHIRE AND THE ISLE OF WIGHT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £771k
• CULTURE SHIFT income £154k

Side by side with its peers

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