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Registered charity · Cambridge

The Historic Chapels Trust

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £2.2m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources

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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage, Economic/community Development/employment
Where
Throughout England
Website
historicchapelstrust.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Historic Chapels Trust
Registered
1993

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£2.2m£2.1m
  • 2024£923k£760k
  • 2023£46k£181k
Earlier years
  • 2022£213k£287k
  • 2021£282k£290k
Charitable objects

TO SECURE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC GENERALLY THE PRESERVATION REPAIR AND MAINTENANCE OF CHAPELS CHURCHES MEETING HOUSES OR OTHER RELIGIOUS BUILDINGS SITUATED IN ENGLAND TOGETHER WITH THEIR CONTENTS BURIAL GROUNDS AND CURTILAGES WHERE THE BUILDINGS ARE OF OUTSTANDING ARCHITECTURAL INTEREST

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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.

8 trustees on the board

4.9y median 3.5y
average tenure
14y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

10.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (5)

Portfolio (3)

8
company-linked trustees

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

Arts/culture/heritage/science 8Environment/conservation/heritage 7Economic/community Development/employment 6Religious Activities 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 8Other services 2Education 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
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£2.2m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025
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.

2.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 2.9 in 2021

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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
1017321
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 8 JANUARY 1993AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 02 JUN 2021
Companies House
Company number 02778395 · Active
Contact on the register
+44 07525452282 · office@historicchapelstrust.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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