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Registered charity · York

Castle Howard Arboretum Trust

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £590k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 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, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
North Yorkshire
Website
yorkshirearboretum.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Castle Howard Arboretum Trust
Registered
1995

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£590k£523k
  • 2024£536k£515k
  • 2023£280k£429k
Earlier years
  • 2022£426k£363k
  • 2021£676k£361k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2022: Government grants 5%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

(1) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND SCIENCE BY THE STUDY OF AND RESEARCH INTO THE CULTIVATION PRESERVATION PROPAGATION AND CONSERVATION OF TREES PLANTS AND PLANT MATERIAL AND FORESTRY AND MATTERS RELATING THERETO (2) THE PRESERVATION AND CONSERVATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT OF TREES PLANTS AND PLANTS MATERIAL AND THE RENDERING OF ADVICE ASSISTANCE AND CONSULTANCY SERVICES IN RELATION THERETO (3) THE ESTABLISHMENT PROVISION MANAGEMENT AND MAINTENANCE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT OF ANY ARBORETUM GARDENS RESEARCH STATIONS OR FORESTRY ARBORICULTURAL OR HORTICULTURAL CENTRES OR TRIAL GROUNDS AND THE PROVISION OF PUBLIC ACCESS THERETO (4) THE PROVISION OF EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES AND COURSES IN RELATION TO THE CULTIVATION PRESERVATION PROPAGATION AND CONSERVATION OF TREES PLANTS PLANT MATERIAL AND FORESTRY AND MATTERS RELATED THERETO (5) THE ESTABLISHMENT AND MAINTENANCE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT OF RECORDS DATABASES AND DATA IN RELATION TO THE OBJECTS SET OUT IN SUB-CLAUSES (1) TO (4) ABOVE

Grants received

6 grants · £72,296 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 · £57,199 (3 grants)
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £12,097 (2 grants)
  • Sir George Martin Trust · £3,000

Most recent

  • Sir George Martin Trust £3,0002019-06-28
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £7,0972009-04-21
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £49,0002006-04-20
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £5,0002005-03-22
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £5,0002005-03-18
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.

6.1y median 5y
average tenure
12y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

16.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

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.

Education/training 9Environment/conservation/heritage 9General Charitable Purposes 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 16Retail and trade 5Business services 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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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£590k 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.

11.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 50.0 in 2021

14 from 12 in 2021
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
1044931
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED ON 5 JANUARY 1995 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 19 OCTOBER 2009
Companies House
Company number 03006258 · Active
Contact on the register
01653648598 · administrator@yorkshirearboretum.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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