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Registered charity · Oxford

The Oxford Preservation Trust

  • 14 trustees
  • Income £838k (2024)
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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
Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Oxfordshire
Website
www.oxfordpreservation.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Oxford Preservation Trust
Registered
1962

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£838k£844k
  • 2023£790k£1.3m
  • 2022£2.1m£816k
Earlier years
  • 2021£832k£1.2m
  • 2020£892k£814k

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Income source mix, 2023: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

(A) TO PRESERVE AND ENHANCE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC THE AMENITIES OF THE CITY OF OXFORD AND ITS SURROUNDINGS. (B) TO PROMOTE AND ENCOURAGE PUBLIC INTEREST IN AND KNOWLEDGE OF THE HISTORY OF THE CITY OF OXFORD AND ITS SURROUNDINGS.

Grants received

16 grants · £4,373,448 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 Heritage Fund · £4,194,804 (5 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £95,152 (4 grants)
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · £83,492 (7 grants)

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £49,2042025-05-07
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £5,7692024-04-01
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £40,8252024-04-01
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £8,1252024-04-01
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £22,8982021-04-01
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.

6.6y median 5y
average tenure
13y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

15.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (7)

14
company-linked trustees

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

Environment/conservation/heritage 12Education/training 4Arts/culture/heritage/science 3Amateur Sport 2General Charitable Purposes 2Recreation 2

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 17Business services 4Construction 3

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£838k latest income · spending exceeded income in 2023 and 2024
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.

110.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 99.6 in 2020

8 from 8 in 2020
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.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
203043
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 14 NOVEMBER 1927
Companies House
Company number 00225839 · Active
Contact on the register
01865242918 · info@oxfordpreservation.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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