Registered charity · Bromsgrove
Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings
- 6 trustees
- Income £519k (2024)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources
Who leads it
- Mark ArmstrongChair
- Adele WoodTrustee · since 2021
- Edward James Kenneth TolcherTrustee · since 2026
- Lucy HockleyTrustee · since 2023
- Michael Paul SmithTrustee · since 2025
- Sarah BeauchampTrustee · since 2023
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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People on this board also serve on 1 other charity:
- Heritage Education Trust · 1 shared trustee
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About
- What it does
- Education/training, Environment/conservation/heritage
- Where
- Birmingham City, Coventry City, Dudley, Solihull and more
- Website
- www.avoncroft.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings
- Registered
- 1965
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2024£519k£587k
- 2023£531k£570k
- 2022£474k£537k
Earlier years
- 2021£472k£436k
- 2020£649k£399k
Charitable objects
TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE HISTORY OF BUILDING AS ILLUSTRATED AT AVONCROFT AND IN THE RELATIONSHIP OF PEOPLE WITH THE BUILDINGS THEY CONSTRUCTED AND IN WHICH THEY LIVED AND WORKED
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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 trustees on the board
- Mark Armstrong Chair
- Adele Wood since 2021
- Edward James Kenneth Tolcher since 2026
- Lucy Hockley since 2023
- Michael Paul Smith since 2025
- Sarah Beauchamp since 2023
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (5)
- Mark Armstrong Chair
- Adele Wood since 2021
- Edward James Kenneth Tolcher since 2026
- Michael Paul Smith since 2025
- Sarah Beauchamp since 2023
Portfolio (1)
- Lucy Hockley since 2023
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
0.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 4.9 in 2020
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 241644
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 10 DECEMBER 1964 AND CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION OF CHANGE OF NAME 10 DECEMBER 1964 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS DATED 09 JUNE 1988, 21 NOVEMBER 1996, 19 JUNE 1997 AND 11 SEPTEMBER 2006
- Companies House
- Company number 00830659 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 01527831363 · contacts@avoncroft.org.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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