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Registered charity (CIO) · Bedford

The Historic Towns Trust

  • 17 trustees
  • Income £110k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 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 And Wales, Scotland
Website
www.historictownstrust.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2015

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£110k£154k
  • 2024£99k£166k
  • 2023£59k£80k
Earlier years
  • 2022£148k£92k
  • 2021£41k£53k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND KNOWLEDGE THROUGH THE SUPPORT AND PROMOTION OF RESEARCH INTO THE HISTORY AND TOPOGRAPHY OF CITIES AND TOWNS IN GREAT BRITAIN AND BY THE DISSEMINATION OF THE RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH, IN PARTICULAR BY THE PUBLICATION OF HISTORIC TOWN ATLASES AND OTHER MAPS AND RELATED WORKS

Grants received

1 grant · £2,871 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.

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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.

3.8y median 2y
average tenure
11y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

6.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (12)

Portfolio (5)

4
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 17Education/training 17Environment/conservation/heritage 17

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 2Hospitality 2Arts and leisure 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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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£110k latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1160040
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - Foundation Registered 20 Jan 2015 as amended on 23 Jan 2023
Contact on the register
07376225558 · secretary@histroictownstrust.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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