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Registered charity · York

Trust Property Administered in Connection With the Company of the Merchant Adventurers of the City of York

Trust Property Administered in Connection With the Company of the Merchant Adventurers of the City of York is a registered charity (number 235256) based in York, governed by 1 trustee. Latest income £847k (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 4th October 2026.

Also known as The York Merchant Adventurers' 1944 Trust (Charity Commission)

  • 1 trustee
  • Income £847k (2025)
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No individual trustees are listed on the register.

Also 1 organisation acting as trustee: Company of Merchant Adventurers of the City of York.

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, Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
City Of York
Website
www.merchantshallyork.org (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1965

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£847k£825k
  • 2024£860k£798k
  • 2023£769k£757k
Earlier years
  • 2022£754k£698k
  • 2021£708k£524k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2022: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

1) MAINTENANCE, UPKEEP AND REPAIR OF THE MERCHANTS' HALL AND TRINITY CHAPEL, FOSSGATE, YORK. 2) PENSIONS TO DECAYED TRADESMEN OF THE CITY OF YORK. 3) SUCH OTHER PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE POOR AND DERSERVING PERSONS OF THE CITY OF YORK OR SURBURBS AS ARE CHARITABLE.

Grants received

2 grants · £294,800 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 · £294,800 (2 grants)

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £38,3002006-04-20
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £256,5002002-11-28
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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£860k latest income · income exceeded spending 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.

14.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 13.1 in 2020

20 from 19 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
235256
Status
Registered
Governing document
TRUST DEED DATED 5 APRIL 1944SCHEME AS AMENDED BY SCHEME DATED 29/03/2011AS AMENDED ON 06 JUL 2015
Contact on the register
01904654818 · the.clerk@merchantshallyork.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
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