Registered charity · London
The Normandy Memorial Trust LTD
- 9 trustees
- Income £1.3m (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Lord Richard DannattChair · since 2017
- Baroness Gabrielle Louise BertinTrustee · since 2019
- General Sir Peter Anthony WallTrustee · since 2017
- John Conacher HarrisonTrustee · since 2022
- Lord Arthur Nicholas Winston SoamesTrustee · since 2023
- Nicholas Newton Henshall WitchellTrustee · since 2016
- Richard Andrew SwallowTrustee · since 2024
- SIR Michael Derek Vaughan RakeTrustee · since 2017
- Viscount Henry MontgomeryTrustee · since 2025
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Where
- France
- Website
- www.normandymemorialtrust.org (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- The Normandy Memorial Trust Limited
- Registered
- 2016
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£1.3m£1.3m
- 2024£2.8m£956k
- 2023£395k£851k
Earlier years
- 2022£199k£735k
- 2021£251k£248k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2024: Government grants 9%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
(1) TO PROMOTE GOOD CITIZENSHIP AMONG THE PUBLIC AND TO PROMOTE THE EFFICIENCY OF THE ARMED FORCES OF THE CROWN BY CREATING AND OPERATING A FITTING AND PERMANENT PUBLIC MEMORIAL IN NORMANDY, FRANCE TO THOSE MEMBERS OF THE BRITISH ARMED FORCES, INCLUDING MEMBERS OF OTHER SERVICES AND THOSE FROM OTHER NATIONS WHO FOUGHT DIRECTLY ALONGSIDE THEM, WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE LANDINGS ON ?D-DAY?, 6TH JUNE 1944, AND IN THE ASSOCIATED AND SUBSEQUENT FIGHTING WHICH IS COLLECTIVELY KNOWN AS THE ?NORMANDY CAMPAIGN?; AND (2) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN THE HISTORY OF D-DAY, THE NORMANDY CAMPAIGN, AND OTHER HISTORICAL CONFLICTS.
Grants received
2 grants · £3,250,000 total360Giving 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
- Ministry of Defence · £3,000,000
- Garfield Weston Foundation · £250,000
Most recent
- Ministry of Defence
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.
9 trustees on the board
- Lord Richard Dannatt Chair since 2017
- Baroness Gabrielle Louise Bertin since 2019
- General Sir Peter Anthony Wall since 2017
- John Conacher Harrison since 2022
- Lord Arthur Nicholas Winston Soames since 2023
- Nicholas Newton Henshall Witchell since 2016
- Richard Andrew Swallow since 2024
- SIR Michael Derek Vaughan Rake since 2017
- Viscount Henry Montgomery since 2025
Trustees past 6 years
- Lord Richard Dannatt Chair since 2017
- Baroness Gabrielle Louise Bertin since 2019
- General Sir Peter Anthony Wall since 2017
- Nicholas Newton Henshall Witchell since 2016
- SIR Michael Derek Vaughan Rake since 2017
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (6)
- Baroness Gabrielle Louise Bertin since 2019
- General Sir Peter Anthony Wall since 2017
- John Conacher Harrison since 2022
- Lord Arthur Nicholas Winston Soames since 2023
- Nicholas Newton Henshall Witchell since 2016
- SIR Michael Derek Vaughan Rake since 2017
Portfolio (3)
- Lord Richard Dannatt Chair since 2017
- Richard Andrew Swallow since 2024
- Viscount Henry Montgomery since 2025
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
7.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 6.6 in 2021
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1168973
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 02 JUN 2016AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 25 JUL 2016AS REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 26 AUG 2016AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 26 APR 2017 as amended on 24 Feb 2026
- Companies House
- Company number 10210480 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 02078280818 · info@normandymemorialtrust.org
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 27th 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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