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The Heritage Trust for the North West
- 9 trustees
- Income £2.1m (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- John TurnerChair · since 2012
- Elizabeth MossTrustee · since 2025
- Georgina LynchTrustee · since 2025
- Jenna JohnstonTrustee · since 2026
- Kathryn SpencerTrustee · since 2025
- Laurie PeakeTrustee · since 2017
- Mark Francis Whitlock BlundellTrustee
- Philip WelshTrustee · since 2025
- Stephen Mark WilliamsTrustee · since 2018
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
- Manchester City, Lancashire, Cumbria, Liverpool City
- Website
- www.htnw.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Heritage Trust for the North West
- Registered
- 1978
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£2.1m£2.1m
- 2024£1.8m£2.0m
- 2023£1.9m£2.0m
Earlier years
- 2022£1.9m£1.7m
- 2021£1.1m£1.1m
Charitable objects
EITHER ON ITS OWN OR IN CONJUNCTION WITH OTHERS TO PRESERVE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PEOPLE OF THE NORTH WEST OF ENGLAND (INCLUDING IN PARTICULAR BUT WITHOUT LIMITING THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING GREATER MANCHESTER AND MERSEYSIDE, CHESHIRE, LANCASHIRE AND CUMBRIA) AND THE NATION AT LARGE, WHATEVER OF THE ENGLISH HISTORICAL, ARCHITECTURAL, CONSTRUCTIONAL AND NATURAL, SOCIAL OR SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE MAY EXIST IN OR NEAR TO THE AFORESAID AREA (IN THE FORM OF BUILDINGS OF PARTICULAR BEAUTY OR HISTORICAL, ARCHITECTURAL OR CONSTRUCTIONAL INTEREST OR ANCIENT MONUMENTS AND OTHERWISE AS SHALL BE CONSISTENT WITH THESE OBJECTS) AND TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE SAID HERITAGE AND TO UNDERTAKE SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES AS MAY BENEFIT THE PEOPLE OF OR VISITORS TO THE SAID AREA
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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.
9 trustees on the board
- John Turner Chair since 2012
- Elizabeth Moss since 2025
- Georgina Lynch since 2025
- Jenna Johnston since 2026
- Kathryn Spencer since 2025
- Laurie Peake since 2017
- Mark Francis Whitlock Blundell
- Philip Welsh since 2025
- Stephen Mark Williams since 2018
Trustees past 6 years
- John Turner Chair since 2012
- Laurie Peake since 2017
- Stephen Mark Williams since 2018
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (6)
- Elizabeth Moss since 2025
- Georgina Lynch since 2025
- Jenna Johnston since 2026
- Kathryn Spencer since 2025
- Mark Francis Whitlock Blundell
- Philip Welsh since 2025
Portfolio (3)
- John Turner Chair since 2012
- Laurie Peake since 2017
- Stephen Mark Williams since 2018
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
8.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 6.9 in 2021
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 508300
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 31 OCTOBER 1978 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS DATED 8 MAY 1991, 16 JUNE 1997 AND 9 MARCH 2005
- Companies House
- Company number 01397038 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 01282 877686 · info@htnw.co.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 20th 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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