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Registered charity · Somerset

The Archives and Records Association (UK and Ireland)

  • 14 trustees
  • Income £686k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th 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
Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Ireland, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.archives.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Archives and Records Association (UK and Ireland)
Registered
1994

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£686k£727k
  • 2024£651k£580k
  • 2023£631k£613k
Earlier years
  • 2022£545k£471k
  • 2021£449k£389k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 10%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

(A)TO FOSTER THE CARE AND PRESERVATION OF ARCHIVES IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST AND PROMOTE THE BETTER ADMINISTRATION OF ARCHIVE REPOSITORIES (B)TO ADVANCE THE PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF ARCHIVISTS, ARCHIVE CONSERVATORS AND RECORDS MANAGERS AND THOSE ENGAGED IN RELATED ACTIVITIES (C)TO COMMISSION AND SUPPORT RESEARCH INTO THE CREATION USE ADMINISTRATION AND CONSERVATION OF ARCHIVES AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW TECHNIQUES AND THE PUBLICATION OF THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH.

Board analysis

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.

14 trustees on the board

1.9y median 2y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
3.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (13)

Portfolio (1)

9
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 14Education/training 14Environment/conservation/heritage 14

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

Other services 9Tech and media 3Retail and trade 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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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

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£686k latest income
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.

9.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 12.7 in 2021

5 from 4 in 2022
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
1041063
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 20/09/1994AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 19/10/1994AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 26/04/2001AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 26/04/2003AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 26/05/2004AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 21/04/2005AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 13/04/2010AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 21/05/2012AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 19/05/2014 as amended on 17 Jun 2022
Companies House
Company number 02969472 · Active
Contact on the register
01823327030 · ara@archives.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
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