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Registered charity · London

The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £1.1m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 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, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.spab.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings
Registered
2006

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.1m£2.2m
  • 2024£2.6m£1.9m
  • 2023£2.3m£1.8m
Earlier years
  • 2022£2.0m£1.7m
  • 2021£1.6m£1.9m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 11%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF ANCIENT BUILDINGS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC GUIDED BY THE PRINCIPLES DECLARED IN THE MANIFESTO OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF ANCIENT BUILDINGS WRITTEN BY THE FOUNDERS IN 1877.

Grants received

18 grants · £1,708,794 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 · £1,128,500 (5 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £373,724 (5 grants)
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport · £105,570 (4 grants)
  • Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation · £87,000 (2 grants)
  • Fenton Arts Trust · £14,000 (2 grants)

Most recent

  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport £45,1742024-04-01
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport £34,3972024-04-01
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport £10,0002024-04-01
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport £16,0002024-04-01
  • Fenton Arts Trust £7,0002023-03-31
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.

11 trustees on the board

2y median 1y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

Portfolio (2)

9
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 11Education/training 11Environment/conservation/heritage 11

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Education 9Arts and leisure 5Other services 3

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£2.6m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2023 and 2024
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.

28.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 13.8 in 2020

22 from 31 in 2020
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
1113753
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 15/03/2006AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 23/06/2007AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 14/12/2007AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 26/06/2010AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 01/07/2011 as amended on 02 Oct 2018 as amended on 05 Dec 2023
Companies House
Company number 05743962 · Active
Contact on the register
02073771644 · info@spab.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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