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Colchester and North East Essex Building Preservation Trust

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £839k (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

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

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Essex
Website
colchesterbpt.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Colchester & North East Essex Building Preservation Trust
Registered
1995

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£839k£511k
  • 2024£249k£321k
  • 2023£207k£177k
Earlier years
  • 2022£178k£96k
  • 2021£40k£49k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 91%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PRESERVE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE TOWNS PEOPLE OF COLCHESTER AND NORTH EAST ESSEX IN THE COUNTY OF ESSEX AND THE NATION AT LARGE WHATEVER OF THE HISTORICAL ARCHITECTURAL AND CONSTRUCTIONAL HERITAGE MAY EXIST IN AND AROUND COLCHESTER AND NORTH EAST ESSEX IN THE FORM OF BUILDINGS ( INCLUDING ANY BUILDING AS DEFINED IN SECTION 336(1) OF THE TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1990) OF PARTICULAR BEAUTY OR HISTORICAL ARCHITECTURAL OR CONSTRUCTIONAL INTEREST

Grants received

6 grants · £8,528,443 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £8,260,000 (2 grants)
  • Garfield Weston Foundation · £200,000
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £68,443 (3 grants)

Most recent

  • Garfield Weston Foundation £200,0002025-10-06
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £8,250,0002023-06-07
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £48,4432021-04-01
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £2,0002021-04-01
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £18,0002020-04-01
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.

6.6y median 3y
average tenure
15y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

13.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (3)

9
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 9Environment/conservation/heritage 8Arts/culture/heritage/science 2Education/training 2Religious Activities 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 9Property 5Construction 2

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£839k 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.

0.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months

0
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
1044514
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 9TH FEBRUARY 1995
Companies House
Company number 03020005 · Active
Contact on the register
07802835745 · simonhall026@gmail.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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