Registered charity · Great Tey
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
- Simon Andrew Dalton Hall MBE DLChair · since 2011
- Andrew CraystonTrustee
- Chris BettsTrustee
- Gary ArmstrongTrustee · since 2023
- Irene Margaret Jane DAYTrustee · since 2025
- Leila Anne Dorothee KleineidamTrustee · since 2023
- Nicholas Spencer CharringtonTrustee · since 2024
- Paul BowmanTrustee · since 2015
- Simon Matthew EastTrustee · since 2023
- William Edmund HaytonTrustee · since 2011
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 total360Giving 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
- The National Lottery Heritage Fund
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
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.
10 trustees on the board
- Simon Andrew Dalton Hall MBE DL Chair since 2011
- Andrew Crayston
- Chris Betts
- Gary Armstrong since 2023
- Irene Margaret Jane DAY since 2025
- Leila Anne Dorothee Kleineidam since 2023
- Nicholas Spencer Charrington since 2024
- Paul Bowman since 2015
- Simon Matthew East since 2023
- William Edmund Hayton since 2011
Trustees past 6 years
- Simon Andrew Dalton Hall MBE DL Chair since 2011
- Paul Bowman since 2015
- William Edmund Hayton since 2011
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (7)
- Andrew Crayston
- Chris Betts
- Gary Armstrong since 2023
- Leila Anne Dorothee Kleineidam since 2023
- Paul Bowman since 2015
- Simon Matthew East since 2023
- William Edmund Hayton since 2011
Portfolio (3)
- Simon Andrew Dalton Hall MBE DL Chair since 2011
- Irene Margaret Jane DAY since 2025
- Nicholas Spencer Charrington since 2024
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
0.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months
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
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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