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Registered charity (CIO) · York

West Bank Park Heritage Trust

  • 5 trustees
  • Income £0 (2025)

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
Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Recreation
Where
City Of York
Website
thebackhouse.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2018

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£0£0
  • 2024£0£0
  • 2023£0£0
Earlier years
  • 2022£0£0
  • 2021£0£0

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

1 TO ADVANCE EDUCATION, IN PARTICULAR BY ENHANCING THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE HISTORY AND HORTICULTURAL LEGACY OF JAMES BACKHOUSE WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THE FORMER NURSERY AND GARDENS SITUATED AT WEST BANK PARK, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY:(A) PROMOTING ENGAGEMENT WITH THE HERITAGE;(B) RESEARCHING THE HISTORY OF THE SITE AND ITS HORTICULTURAL LEGACY;(C) PRESERVING AND CONSERVING THE REMAINS OF THE LODGE AND HORTICULTURAL HERITAGE OF WEST BANK PARK;(D) PROMOTING AN UNDERSTANDING OF HORTICULTURE BY PROVIDING A SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY SPACE FOR PEOPLE OF ALL AGES TO COME TOGETHER, SHARE KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS AND ENGAGE WITH HORTICULTURE; AND2 TO BENEFIT THE RESIDENTS OF YORK, WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, RACE OR OF POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS BY ASSOCIATING TOGETHER THE SAID RESIDENTS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO PROVIDE FACILITIES, IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE, FOR RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE RESIDENTS.

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.

5 trustees on the board

7.8y median 8y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (5)

0
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 5Education/training 5Recreation 5

Gaps to watch

  • No commercial or business experience on the board
  • 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

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1179788
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 04 Sep 2018
Contact on the register
07813144712 · westbankhouse@gmail.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 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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