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Registered charity · Coventry

Historic Coventry Trust

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £398k (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
Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Coventry City
Website
www.historiccoventrytrust.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Historic Coventry Trust
Registered
2012

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£398k£224k
  • 2024£785k£488k
  • 2023£2.1m£1.4m
Earlier years
  • 2022£3.9m£705k
  • 2021£7.9m£8.1m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

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

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO THE FOLLOWING:TO PRESERVE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PEOPLE OF COVENTRY AND OF THE NATION, THE HISTORICAL, ARCHITECTURAL AND CONSTRUCTIONAL HERITAGE THAT MAY EXIST IN AND AROUND COVENTRY IN BUILDINGS AND OTHER PUBLIC AMENITIES INCLUDING ANY STRUCTURE OR ERECTION, AND ANY PART OF A BUILDING AS SO DEFINED) OF PARTICULAR BEAUTY OR HISTORICAL, ARCHITECTURAL OR CONSTRUCTIONAL INTEREST AND ANY WORKS OF ART OR OTHER ITEMS OF HISTORIC VALUE WITHIN THOSE BUILDINGS OR PUBLIC AMENITIES.

Grants received

30 grants · £8,889,721 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 · £7,105,575 (4 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £1,119,660 (20 grants)
  • Garfield Weston Foundation · £300,000 (2 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport · £275,000 (2 grants)
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport · £89,486 (2 grants)

Most recent

  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport £74,8612023-04-01
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £16,1252022-04-01
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £10,0002022-04-01
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £9,6252022-04-01
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £137,3292022-04-01
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.

10 trustees on the board

8.4y median 8y
average tenure
14y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

14.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (5)

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.

Environment/conservation/heritage 9Education/training 2Disability 1Other Charitable Purposes 1The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 1The 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 13Property 8Business services 2

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£785k 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.

1.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months

3 from 5 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
1148237
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 27/10/2011AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 11/09/2015AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 08 JAN 2020
Companies House
Company number 07825870 · Active
Contact on the register
02475270333 · admin@historiccoventrytrust.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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