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Registered charity · Suffolk

The Suffolk Historic Churches Trust

  • 13 trustees
  • Income £276k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 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
Suffolk
Website
www.shct.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1974

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£276k£297k
  • 2024£387k£269k
  • 2023£254k£458k
Earlier years
  • 2022£308k£236k
  • 2021£326k£205k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

THE PRESERVATION, REPAIR, MAINTENANCE, IMPROVEMENT, UPKEEP, BEAUTIFICATION AND RECONSTRUCTION OF CHURCHES IN THE COUNTRY OF SUFFOLK AND OF MONUMENTS, FITTINGS, FIXTURES, STAINED GLASS, FURNITURE, ORNAMENTS AND CHATTELS IN SUCH CHURCHES AND OF THE CHURCHYARD BELONGING TO ANY OF SUCH CHURCHES.

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.

8.2y median 7.5y
average tenure
14y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

12y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (11)

Portfolio (2)

3
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 13General Charitable Purposes 2Education/training 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.

Finance 4Education 2Arts and leisure 1

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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£276k latest income

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
267047
Status
Registered
Governing document
TRUST DEED DATED 21ST DECEMBER 1973
Contact on the register
01787883884 · shct@btconnect.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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