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Registered charity · London

The English Heritage Trust

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £155m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 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, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Throughout England
Website
www.english-heritage.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The English Heritage Trust
Registered
2011

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£155m£163m
  • 2024£141m£155m
  • 2023£130m£141m
Earlier years
  • 2022£116m£126m
  • 2021£100m£96m

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 CONSERVATION OF THE HBMCE HERITAGE ASSETS AND THE HBMCE COLLECTIONS, AND THEIR ENHANCEMENT FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, INCLUDING BY THE PROVISION OF ADVICE, ASSISTANCE AND SERVICES TO HBMCE;2) TO PROMOTE THE CONSERVATION OF HERITAGE ASSETS BY SUPPORT AND ASSISTANCE TO HBMCE IN MAKING ADDITIONS TO THE HBMCE HERITAGE ASSETS AND THE HBMCE COLLECTIONS;3) TO PROMOTE THE PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE AND ENJOYMENT OF THE HBMCE HERITAGE ASSETS AND THE HBMCE COLLECTIONS, INCLUDING THROUGH THE PROVISION OF INFORMATION AND OTHER SERVICES AND FACILITIES FOR VISITORS AND MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC;4) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION BY PROMOTING PUBLIC APPRECIATION OF THE HISTORY OF AND ENCOURAGING FURTHER STUDY OR ENQUIRY INTO BUILDINGS, LANDMARKS, PEOPLE OR EVENTS OF HISTORICAL, ARTISTIC, SCIENTIFIC OR RELIGIOUS SIGNIFICANCE THROUGH THE OPERATION AND SUPPORT OF THE BLUE PLAQUE SCHEME; AND5) TO FURTHER SUCH OTHER EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES INCIDENTAL TO THE ABOVE OBJECTS AS THE TRUSTEES SEE FIT.

Grants received

34 grants · £26,613,410 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 · £20,682,753 (22 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £3,012,862 (3 grants)
  • Garfield Weston Foundation · £1,250,000 (2 grants)
  • Department for Transport · £1,000,000
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport · £457,795

Most recent

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.

2y median 3y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

20.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

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.

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.

Arts and leisure 17Finance 15Professional services 10

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£155.2m latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

2.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months

2548 from 1264 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
1140351
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 22/11/2010AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 01/10/2013AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 17/12/2014AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 18/12/2014NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 25/03/2015
Companies House
Company number 07447221 · Active
Contact on the register
07920467844 · charityinfo@english-heritage.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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