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Registered charity (CIO) · Royal William Yard

National Trails UK

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £408k (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources

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
General Charitable Purposes, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.nationaltrails.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2021

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£408k£611k
  • 2024£614k£410k
  • 2023£229k£64k
Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE TO:(1) PROMOTE AND PROTECT THE HEALTH AND WELL-BEING OF THE PUBLIC BY SECURING THE PROTECTION, IMPROVEMENT AND CONSERVATION OF THE VARIOUS NATIONAL TRAILS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM ('THE NATIONAL TRAILS'), IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY PROMOTING PUBLIC ACCESS TO THE NATIONAL TRAILS AND ENCOURAGING PEOPLE TO WALK, RIDE AND TAKE EXERCISE USING THE NATIONAL TRAILS AND TO ACCESS AND ENJOY THE LANDSCAPES THROUGH WHICH THEY PASS;(2) ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN RELATION TO THE NATIONAL TRAILS, THEIR HISTORY AND HERITAGE, THE COMMUNITIES LINKED WITH THEM AND THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS IN WHICH THEY ARE SITUATED, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE PROVISION OF ARTS AND HERITAGE ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITIES; AND(3) PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, AND TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN, THE CONSERVATION PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT WHERE THIS RELATES TO THE NETWORK OF NATIONAL TRAILS AND THE LANDSCAPES THROUGH WHICH THEY RUN.

Board analysis for researchers

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

3.3y median 4y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
7.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (3)

3
company-linked trustees

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

General Charitable Purposes 10Arts/culture/heritage/science 9The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 8Education/training 1Environment/conservation/heritage 1Recreation 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 3Education 2Health and social care 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 3 years.
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£408k latest income

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1196805
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - ASSOCIATION Registered 26 Nov 2021
Contact on the register
07828 647659 · info@nationaltrails.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th 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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