'The Campden Charities Trustee’ is an independent charitable trust (charity number 1104616) and company limited by guarantee (company number 5093340) that manages the ‘The Campden Charities’ – an amalgamation of endowed charities the first of which was founded in 1629.

The ‘objects’ of the Charities are: ‘To relieve either generally or individually persons resident in the former Parish of Kensington and the former Royal Borough of Kensington who are in need of financial assistance by means of the payment of pensions and of grants to individuals and organisations and to advance the education and training (including vocational, social, recreational and physical) of those residents as aforesaid who are in need of financial assistance by means of grants to individuals and organisations to the intent that one half of the Charities’ income available for grant giving shall be applied to the relief of need and the other half to the advancement of education save that if in so far as income in any one year is not required for application for the advancement of education, it may be applied to the relief of need.’

Expressed more simply the Charities must spend at least half of its income available for grant giving on the relief of need and up to half on the advancement of education.

Further Information:

You can download a brief history, our most recent annual report and accounts and a summary of how we manage our assets to generate charitable income by using the 'publications' link on the left.

The Campden Charities is managed by an independent board of Trustees drawn from people with local knowledge and those with expertise that relates to our activities. You can see a list of our current Trustees and see how our committee structure works and how decisions are made by using the 'Trustees' link on the left. Our staff team implements the Trustees’ decisions. You can see who is responsible for various areas of our work by using the 'Staff' link on the left.

If we have any current vacancies they will also be advertised in the Staff section.