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Registered charity · London

The Victorian Society

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £690k (2024)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 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
Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.victoriansociety.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Victorian Society
Registered
2000

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£690k£476k
  • 2023£435k£446k
  • 2022£650k£451k
Earlier years
  • 2021£605k£364k
  • 2020£290k£367k

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Income source mix, 2022: Government contracts 1% · Government grants 7%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

(A) TO AWAKEN PUBLIC INTEREST IN AND APPRECIATION OF THE BEST OF VICTORIAN AND EDWARDIAN ARTS, ARTS, ARCHITECTURE, CRAFTS AND DESIGN; (B) TO ENCOURAGE THE STUDY OF THESE AND RELATED SOCIAL HISTORY AND TO AFFORD ADVICE TO OWNERS AND PUBLIC AUTHORITIES IN REGARD TO THE PRESERVATION AND REPAIR OF VICTORIAN AND EDWARDIAN BUILDINGS AND THE USES TO WHICH THEY CAN, IF NECESSARY, BE ADAPTED; (C) TO CAMPAIGN TO SAVE FROM NEEDLESS DESTRUCTION OR DISFIGUREMENT VICTORIAN AND EDWARDIAN BUILDINGS OR GROUPS OF BUILDINGS OF SPECIAL ARCHITECTURAL MERIT; (D) TO PROMOTE THE INHERENT SUSTAINABILITY OF THE REPAIR AND REUSE OF HISTORIC BUILDINGS.

Grants received

13 grants · £596,103 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 · £243,000
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £183,599 (7 grants)
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport · £88,275 (3 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport · £40,615
  • Department for Culture, Media and Sport · £40,615

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £243,0002024-06-06
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport £45,1742024-04-01
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport £10,0002024-02-28
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport £33,1012023-03-23
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £42,2562022-02-25
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.

8 trustees on the board

5y median 4.5y
average tenure
10y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

13.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

Portfolio (2)

8
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 8Education/training 8Environment/conservation/heritage 8

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 10Other services 3Construction 1

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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£690k 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.

19.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 21.4 in 2020

8 from 8 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
1081435
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 6TH MARCH 2000; AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 25 OCTOBER 2003 AND 23 APRIL 2005. as amended on 12 Oct 2023
Companies House
Company number 03940996 · Active
Contact on the register
02087475890 · admin@victoriansociety.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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