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Registered charity · Swindon

The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest OR Natural Beauty

The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest OR Natural Beauty is a registered charity (number 205846) based in Swindon, governed by 12 trustees. Latest income £766m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 11th October 2026.

Also known as National Trust, National Trust Cymru, The National Trust (Charity Commission)

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £766m (2025)
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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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Similar charities are matched by type of organisation or purpose and listed by latest income; shared trustees are formal board links. Neither is proof the organisations work together.

Public contracts won

1 contract

From Contracts Finder and Find a Tender, the UK Government's public procurement notices, under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Matched to this organisation by company number, charity number or exact name and postcode; every figure links to its source notice.

About

What it does
Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Northern Ireland
Website
www.nationaltrust.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1962

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£766m£824m
  • 2024£724m£768m
  • 2023£671m£733m
Earlier years
  • 2022£643m£592m
  • 2021£508m£515m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 5%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE PRESERVATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE NATION OF LANDS AND TENEMENTS (INCLUDING BUILDINGS) OF BEAUTY OR HISTORIC INTEREST AND, AS REGARDS LANDS, FOR THE PRESERVATION (AS FAR AS PRACTICABLE) OF THEIR NATURAL ASPECT, FEATURES AND ANIMAL AND PLANT LIFE. ALSO THE PRESERVATION OF FURNITURE, PICTURES AND CHATTELS OF ANY DESCRIPTION HAVING NATIONAL AND HISTORIC OR ARTISTIC INTEREST. (FOR FURTHER DETAILS SEE THE NATIONAL TRUST ACTS, 1907 TO 1971).

Grants received

558 grants · £233,645,449 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 · £127,974,103 (215 grants)
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · £47,484,990 (175 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £14,908,257 (26 grants)
  • Department for Transport · £10,585,372 (24 grants)
  • Sport England · £9,987,867 (14 grants)

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Community Fund £24,4352026-03-27
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £1,104,9402025-12-09
  • SHAREGIFT £110,0002025-11-11
  • Sport England £2,500,0002025-11-07
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £42,7492025-10-27

Contracts awarded

25 contracts · £1,957,922 total

From Contracts Finder and Find a Tender (Open Government Licence v3.0), where this organisation is recorded as the buyer. Suppliers are matched to a Governance Register company or charity page at confidence 0.7 or higher; below that they are shown by name only.

Top suppliers

  • Unknown supplier · £1,957,922 (25 contracts)

Most recent

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.

0y median 0y
average tenure
0y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
10y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (2)

6
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 11Arts/culture/heritage/science 2Education/training 2The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 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.

Professional services 16Construction 7Arts and leisure 6

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£766.2m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025
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.

23.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 9.6 in 2021

8746 from 7578 in 2021
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
205846
Status
Registered
Governing document
ACT OF PARLIAMENT THE NATIONAL TRUST ACTS, 1907, 1919, 1937, 1953 AND 1971 STATUTORY INSTRUMENT 1975 NO 1155. AS AMENDED BY SCHEME OF THE COMMISSIONERS SEALED 12/01/2005 (AS EFFECTED BY STATUTORY INSTRUMENT 2005 NO. 712) AMENDED 2/07/2008, 21/01/2009, 19/05/2010, 22/03/2016, 17/06/2020 AND 23/03/2022
Contact on the register
01793 817400 · thesecretary@nationaltrust.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 11th October 2026
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