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Registered charity (CIO) · York

Friends of ST Nicholas Fields

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £789k (2025)

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, Environment/conservation/heritage, Economic/community Development/employment
Where
City Of York
Website
www.stnicks.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2013

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£789k£775k
  • 2024£656k£655k
  • 2023£582k£617k
Earlier years
  • 2022£578k£509k
  • 2021£350k£350k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 22% · Government grants 11%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

1) TO PRESERVE AND CONSERVE THE AREA KNOWN AS ST. NICHOLAS FIELDS,INCLUDING THE FLORA AND FAUNA OF THE AREA, FOR THE BENEFIT AND EDUCATION OFTHE PUBLIC.2) TO PROMOTE THE PUBLIC EDUCATION, PARTICULAR YOUTH EDUCATION, OFPERSONS RESIDENT IN YORK AND SURROUNDING AREAS IN THE PRINCIPLES ANDBENEFITS OF ENVIRONMENTAL AND CONSERVATION ISSUES AND OF SUSTAINABILITYINCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO RECYCLING AND WASTE REDUCTION.3) TO PROMOTE THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY PROVIDING FACILITIES IN THEINTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OFIMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.

Grants received

31 grants · £1,479,609 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 Community Fund · £898,889 (8 grants)
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £304,797 (4 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £152,023 (3 grants)
  • Two Ridings Community Foundation · £35,950 (7 grants)
  • Garfield Weston Foundation · £35,562 (3 grants)

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.

8 trustees on the board

2.9y median 2.5y
average tenure
4y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
4.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

1
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Economic/community Development/employment 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.

Hospitality 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.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£789k 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.

6.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 3.7 in 2021

17 from 12 in 2022
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.
33%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1153739
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - Association Registered 09 Sep 2013
Contact on the register
01904411821 · info@stnicks.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 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.

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