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Registered charity · York

The Council for British Archaeology

The Council for British Archaeology is a registered charity (number 287815) based in York, governed by 12 trustees. Latest income £978k (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 25th October 2026.

Also known as C B A (Charity Commission)

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £978k (2025)
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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
Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Guernsey and more
Website
www.archaeologyUK.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Council for British Archaeology
Registered
1983

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£978k£957k
  • 2024£830k£848k
  • 2023£667k£750k
Earlier years
  • 2022£924k£836k
  • 2021£941k£796k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 53%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

(1) TO ADVANCE THE STUDY AND PRACTICE OF THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF OR PERTAINING TO GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND (2) TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN SUCH ARCHAEOLOGY (3) TO CONDUCT AND COMMUNICATE THE RESULTS OF RELEVANT RESEARCH(4) TO ADVANCE PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING AND CARE OF THE HISTORIC ENVIRONMENT

Grants received

19 grants · £3,038,341 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 · £2,686,329 (11 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £208,905 (5 grants)
  • The Headley Trust · £77,492
  • Department for Culture, Media and Sport · £40,615
  • Garfield Weston Foundation · £25,000

Most recent

  • Garfield Weston Foundation £25,0002025-05-07
  • The Headley Trust £77,4922025-05-07
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £249,7292024-02-26
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £10,0002022-02-25
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £12,0002022-02-21
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.

12 trustees on the board

1.8y median 2y
average tenure
4y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
9.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (2)

11
company-linked trustees

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

Arts/culture/heritage/science 12Education/training 12Environment/conservation/heritage 11Amateur Sport 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.

Education 13Arts and leisure 3Construction 2

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£978k latest income
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.

1.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months

16 from 12 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
287815
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 10/10/1983AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 29/02/2000AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 30/09/2000AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 09/03/2006AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 08/11/2010AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 03/03/2013 as amended on 22 Nov 2019 as amended on 21 Feb 2026
Companies House
Company number 01760254 · Active
Contact on the register
01904 671417 · info@archaeologyUK.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 25th October 2026
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