Registered charity · Berkshire
The Yorkist History Trust
- 8 trustees
- Income £494k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources
Who leads it
- Dr Carolina Theodora Livia Visser-FuchsTrustee
- Dr Christian Oliver SteerTrustee · since 2016
- Dr Joanna Louise LaynesmithTrustee · since 2018
- Dr Lynda PidgeonTrustee
- Dr Philip Thomas MuijtjensTrustee · since 2024
- Prof Maryanne KowaleskiTrustee · since 2024
- Professor Anne Elizabeth CurryTrustee · since 2025
- Professor Christian Drummond LiddyTrustee · since 2026
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- Education/training
- Where
- Throughout England And Wales
- Website
- yorkisthistorytrust.org (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 1986
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£494k£555k
- 2024£187k£55k
- 2023£13k£16k
Earlier years
- 2022£7k£9k
- 2021£871£50
Charitable objects
TO FURTHER EDUCATION, LEARNING AND RESEARCH RELATED TO THE HISTORY OF LATE MEDIEVAL ENGLAND (AND IN PARTICULAR THE LIFE AND REIGN OF KING RICHARD III) AND TO DISSEMINATE THE RESULTS OF SUCH EDUCATION, LEARNING AND RESEARCH THROUGH THE COMMISSIONING, PREPARATION AND PUBLICATION OF BOOKS, PAPERS, DOCUMENTS, PAMPHLETS, MAPS, FACSIMILES, PAINTINGS, DRAWINGS, ETCHINGS, FILMS AND AUDIO AND VISUAL RECORDINGS, AND BY SUCH OTHER MEANS, INCLUDING KEEPING A LIBRARY AS THE TRUSTEES MAY AT THEIR DISCRETION DETERMINE.
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 trustees on the board
- Dr Carolina Theodora Livia Visser-Fuchs
- Dr Christian Oliver Steer since 2016
- Dr Joanna Louise Laynesmith since 2018
- Dr Lynda Pidgeon
- Dr Philip Thomas Muijtjens since 2024
- Prof Maryanne Kowaleski since 2024
- Professor Anne Elizabeth Curry since 2025
- Professor Christian Drummond Liddy since 2026
Trustees past 6 years
- Dr Christian Oliver Steer since 2016
- Dr Joanna Louise Laynesmith since 2018
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (8)
- Dr Carolina Theodora Livia Visser-Fuchs
- Dr Christian Oliver Steer since 2016
- Dr Joanna Louise Laynesmith since 2018
- Dr Lynda Pidgeon
- Dr Philip Thomas Muijtjens since 2024
- Prof Maryanne Kowaleski since 2024
- Professor Anne Elizabeth Curry since 2025
- Professor Christian Drummond Liddy since 2026
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Gaps to watch
- No commercial or business experience on the board
- Narrow spread of causes across the board
- Mostly recent joiners - limited long-term continuity
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
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 327005
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- TRUST DEED DATED 21 OCT 1985AS AMENDED BY DEED DATED 23 JUL 1999AS AMENDED BY DEED DATED 03 NOV 2007AS AMENDED BY DEED DATED 26 NOV 2011AS AMENDED BY DEED DATED 22 NOV 2014AS AMENDED BY DEED DATED 21 NOV 2015AS AMENDED BY DEED DATED 14 JAN 2023
- Contact on the register
- 01787 472512 · yht@snd23.com
- 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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