Skip to content
Governance Register

Registered charity · London

Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £3.3m (2025)

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

Network

The large node is Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust. Red nodes are organisations, white nodes are people. Sign in free to explore further.

Who leads it

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

Do you help lead this organisation? Set up its network · How it works

About

What it does
Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Camden
Website
www.highgatecemetery.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust
Registered
1996

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£3.3m£2.2m
  • 2024£3.1m£2.7m
  • 2023£2.1m£2.3m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.7m£1.8m
  • 2021£1.6m£1.4m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

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

Charitable objects

(1) TO PROMOTE THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN RELATION TO HIGHGATE CEMETERY ("THE CEMETERY") BY ANY MEANS APPROPRIATE OR LIKELY TO PRESERVE IT AS A PLACE OF HISTORIC AND OTHER INTEREST AND BEAUTY;(2) TO PERMIT THE CEMETERY (OR SUCH PART THEREOF AS MAY BE AVAILABLE FOR THE PURPOSE) TO BE USED AS A PUBLIC BURIAL GROUND;(3) TO SECURE THE REPAIR, RESTORATION AND PRESERVATION OF THE CEMETERY, ITS MONUMENTS AND BUILDINGS AND OTHER ARTEFACTS AND THEIR SETTING FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT.

Grants received

1 grant · £6,799,999 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 · £6,799,999

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £6,799,9992023-12-13
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.

12 trustees on the board

2.9y median 3y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
7.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (11)

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.

Environment/conservation/heritage 12The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 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 10Education 3Finance 2

Gaps to watch

  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

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.

🔒 Succession forecast is a Pro feature - the board seats likely to open in the next year and the ideal next trustee. Explore Pro →

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£3.3m 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.

72.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 109.7 in 2021

20 from 14 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
1058392
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 12 FEB 1996AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 12 APR 2000AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 15 MAR 2006AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 17 JUN 2008AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 11 MAR 2010AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 29 APR 2015AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 06 JUL 2021AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 17 DEC 2021
Companies House
Company number 03157806 · Active
Contact on the register
02083401834 · info@highgatecemetery.org
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.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Report an issue · How we handle data