The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 6th September 2026

Vernacular Architecture Group

Registered charity 279839 Registered since 1982

Operates: Throughout England And Wales

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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.

4.1y median 3.5y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

6y
average years in governance
1
company-linked trustees

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

Education/training 17Environment/conservation/heritage 17Arts/culture/heritage/science 3General Charitable Purposes 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.

Arts and leisure 1Other services 1

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£139k latest income

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

Connected through a shared trustee

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitewww.vag.org.uk
Emailsecretary@vag.org.uk
Phone01768351352
AddressHampers, Oak Road, Little Maplestead, HALSTEAD, Essex, CO9 2RT

Finances

£139,225 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£29,018£26,570
2022£24,515£30,235
2023£74,225£71,080
2024£71,079£82,305
2025£139,225£91,278

What it does

What

Education/trainingEnvironment/conservation/heritage

Who

Other Defined Groups

How

Sponsors Or Undertakes Research

Charitable objects

THE PROMOTION OF THE STUDY OF LESSER TRADITIONAL BUILDINGS, PARTICULAR THOSE OF THE UNITED KINGDON.

Governing document: RULES ADOPTED 19TH DECEMBER 1981 AND AMENDED ON 17TH DECEMBER 1983, 14TH DECEMBER 1984 AND 14TH DECEMBER 1985, 14TH DECEMBER 1991 AND 17 DECEMBER 2005 as amended on 07 Jan 2016

Trustees (17)

17trustees
53median age
0aged 70+

Connected charities (7)

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