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Registered charity · York

The OLD Meeting House Trust

The OLD Meeting House Trust is a registered charity (number 1058130) based in York, governed by 13 trustees. Latest income £2.2m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 18th October 2026.

Also known as Helmsley Arts Centre (Charity Commission)

  • 13 trustees
  • Income £2.2m (2025)
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About

What it does
Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
North Yorkshire
Website
www.helmsleyarts.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The OLD Meeting House Trust
Registered
1996

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£2.2m£341k
  • 2024£305k£328k
  • 2023£268k£322k
Earlier years
  • 2022£263k£278k
  • 2021£204k£170k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO FOSTER PROMOTE AND TO INCREASE AMONGST THE GENERAL PUBLIC THE KNOWLEDGE AND APPRECIATION OF ART,MUSIC AND LITERATURE AND FOR THOSE PURPOSES TO PROMOTE AND TO ORGANISE ART EXHIBITIONS,MUSIC RECITALS AND CONCERTS POETRY RECITALS AND READINGS,LECTURES AND FILMS AND UPON ARTISTIC MUSICAL AND LITERARY SUBJECTS

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.

1.4y median 0y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
12y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

Portfolio (5)

10
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 13Accommodation/housing 2Education/training 2General Charitable Purposes 1Other Charitable Purposes 1Religious 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 3Agriculture 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£2.2m 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.

60.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months

7
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
1058130
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 17 MAY 1996
Companies House
Company number 03200475 · Active
Contact on the register
01439 771715 · helmsleyarts@yahoo.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 18th October 2026
Labels
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