BATTLEFIELDS TRUST

Registered charity 1017387 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q61930903

The preservation, interpretation and presentation of battlefields.

Objects

GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSES,THE PRESERVATION,INTERPRETATION AND PRESERVATION OF BATTLE SITES AS EDUCATIONAL AND HERITAGE RESOURCES

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Camden, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £111,282, significantly exceeding the stated policy target of approximately £16,000. The charity reported a net unrestricted surplus of £13,560 against total expenditure of £83,457, with trustees confirming the organization remains a going concern despite recognizing uncertainties in funding sources.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02786730

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• HART, Neil Lewis — director, appointed 05/04/2025on trustee list
• WHITBREAD, Rachael Elizabeth, Dr. — director, appointed 06/04/2024on trustee list
• BROADHURST, Ismini Georgina Sylvia, Dr — director, appointed 07/10/2023not on trustee list
• ARCHER, Gregg James — director, appointed 25/03/2023on trustee list
• WINTER, Kevin James — director, appointed 25/03/2023on trustee list
• LOGAN, Norman Bruce Sangster — director, appointed 25/03/2023on trustee list
• AUSTIN, David — director, appointed 28/05/2022on trustee list
• RICH, Anthony John Edmund — director, appointed 28/05/2022on trustee list
• JEFFREY, Andrew Paul — director, appointed 29/01/2022on trustee list
• MAY, Christopher John Richard — director, appointed 28/04/2019on trustee list
• LOGAN, Norman Bruce Sangster — secretary, appointed 30/04/2024

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANDREW PAUL JEFFREY
• Anthony John Edmund Rich · trustee of 3 other charities
• Christopher May
• David Austin
• Dr Christopher Lance Scott
• Dr Ismini Pells
• Dr Rachael Elizabeth Whitbread
• Gregg James Archer
• HOWARD WILLIAM SIMMONS · trustee of 2 other charities
• Kevin James Winter
• Neil Hart
• Norman Bruce Sangster Logan

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with OUR BIG PICTURE LTD.

• OUR BIG PICTURE LTD income £257k
• BELBROUGHTON RECREATION CENTRE income £32k
• THE FORT TRUST income £29k
• THE WELWYN HATFIELD FOYER CHARITABLE TRUST income £63k
• THE PROTECTED AREAS FOUNDATION income £261k
• BATHGATE CHARITABLE TRUST income £230k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.