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Registered charity · York

York Archaeological Trust for Excavation and Research Limited

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £12m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th 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
Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland
Website
www.yorkarchaeology.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
York Archaeological Trust for Excavation and Research Limited
Registered
1982

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£12m£13m
  • 2024£14m£14m
  • 2023£11m£10m
Earlier years
  • 2022£11m£8.9m
  • 2021£5.5m£7.1m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 3%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN ARCHAEOLOGY, HISTORY AND RELATED DISCIPLINES ASSOCIATED WITH THE CITY OF YORK AND ELSEWHERE AND PROMOTE THE PRESERVATION AND DISPLAY OF COLLECTIONS OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL MATERIAL AND CARRY OUT RESEARCH AND DISSEMINATE THE RESULTS.

Grants received

27 grants · £1,773,402 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 Community Fund · £861,358 (4 grants)
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £814,087 (16 grants)
  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy · £74,832
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £18,125 (5 grants)
  • Cheshire Community Foundation · £5,000

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £9,8752023-12-07
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £249,3922022-06-21
  • Cheshire Community Foundation £5,0002021-10-18
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £49,7002020-06-29
  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy £74,8322020-06-01
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.

10 trustees on the board

5.2y median 5.5y
average tenure
14y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (3)

9
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 10Arts/culture/heritage/science 9Environment/conservation/heritage 8Disability 1The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 1The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 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.

Professional services 9Arts and leisure 3Business services 3

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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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

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£11.6m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025
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.

4.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 0.0 in 2021

225 from 196 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
509060
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 19/06/1979AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 10/07/1981AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 20/09/1991AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 22/09/2000AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 12/12/2003NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 03/12/2010AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 09/12/2011
Companies House
Company number 01430801 · Active
Contact on the register
01904663008 · enquiries@yorkat.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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