Registered charity · York
York Oral History Society
- 7 trustees
- Income £604 (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
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
- North Yorkshire, City Of York
- Website
- www.yorkoralhistory.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 1988
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£604£1k
- 2024£442£2k
- 2023£5k£5k
Earlier years
- 2022£2k£1k
- 2021£281£202
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Charitable objects
TO ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION IN THE HISTORY OF THE YORK AREA BY RECORDING, PRESERVING AND DISSEMINATING THE HISTORICAL MEMORIES OF PEOPLE LIVING IN THE AREA, AND BY MAINTAINING AN ARCHIVE OF ORAL AND PHOTOGRAPHIC MATERIAL FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT.
Grants received
5 grants · £99,374 total360Giving 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 · £91,824 (4 grants)
- The National Lottery Community Fund · £7,550
Most recent
- The National Lottery Heritage Fund
- The National Lottery Heritage Fund
- The National Lottery Community Fund
- The National Lottery Heritage Fund
- The National Lottery Heritage Fund
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.
7 trustees on the board
- Jonathan Edward French Chair since 2014
- Alan Paul Hardwick
- Brian Kenneth Freeborn
- Caroline Nicola Pheby since 2020
- David Poole
- John Andrew Swanwick since 2021
- Michael Race
Trustees past 6 years
- Jonathan Edward French Chair since 2014
- Caroline Nicola Pheby since 2020
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (6)
- Alan Paul Hardwick
- Brian Kenneth Freeborn
- Caroline Nicola Pheby since 2020
- David Poole
- John Andrew Swanwick since 2021
- Michael Race
Portfolio (1)
- Jonathan Edward French Chair since 2014
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
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 700567
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 29 JULY 1987 AS AMENDED 13 JULY 1988, 5 OCTOBER 1988, 6 JUNE 1990, 19 JUNE 1996 AND 13 NOVEMBER 1996
- Contact on the register
- 01904 630970 · contact@yorkoralhistory.org.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 27th 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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