NORTHAMPTONSHIRE HISTORIC CHURCHES TRUST

Registered charity 1021632 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Repair and maintenance of churches in Northamptonshire

Objects

THE PRESERVATION REPAIR MAINTENANCE IMPROVEMENT UPKEEP BEAUTIFICATION AND RECONSTRUCTION OF CHURCHES IN NORTHAMPTONSHIRE AND OF MONUMENTS FITTINGS FIXTURES STAINED GLASS FURNITURE ORNAMENTS AND CHATTELS IN SUCH CHURCHES AND OF THE CHURCHYARD BELONGING TO ANY SUCH CHURCHES AND THE TRUSTEES MAY AT ANY TIME AND FROM TIME TO TIME PAY OR TRANSFER ANY PART OR PARTS OF THE INCOME OR CAPITAL OF THE TRUST FUND TO THE HISTORIC CHURCHES PRESERVATION TRUST FOR ANY SIMILAR CHARITABLE PURPOSE OR PURPOSES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM OTHER THAN IN NORTHAMPTONSHIRE

Area of benefit: NORTHAMPTONSHIRE

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

Causes: Environment/conservation/heritage · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the financial year with an accumulated fund deficit of £38,520.15, resulting in a closing balance of £295,315. The trustees note that the Trust is obliged to maintain its resources at a sum in excess of pledged grants, indicating a managed approach to liquidity despite the annual deficit.

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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• GARETH LUGAR-MAWSONchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Alice Magnay
• Andrew Roy Presland · trustee of 3 other charities
• BRUCE ANTHONY BAILEY FSA
• EDWIN BYLAND
• Eleanor Townsend
• Hilary Aslett
• JOHN CHARLES BARKER · trustee of 1 other charity
• James Percy Miller D.L. · trustee of 3 other charities
• Martin Gaskell · trustee of 1 other charity
• Michael John Moore
• Mrs Liz Doherty
• Rosalind Mary Willatts
• THE VENERABLE RICHARD JEREMY ORMSTON Archdeacon · trustee of 2 other charities
• VAL HARTLEY
• Virginia Anne Henley · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Northamptonshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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