THE YORKSHIRE DALES MILLENNIUM TRUST

Registered charity 1061687 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We support the well-being of the Dales. Activities range from conserving the environmental and heritage features making up the landscape to issues as diverse as countryside apprenticeships, supporting local communities, and encouraging sustainable development. Social exclusion, education, and engaging communities in nearby conurbations with the Dales have become a real focus.

Causes: Education/training · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted reserves of £852,412, which the trustees confirmed were within their stated policy target of 3-5 months' operational costs. The charity reported a net surplus for the year and the auditors confirmed there were no material uncertainties related to its ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Armstrong Watson Audit Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Michael Devlin — Chief Executive (source)
• David Sharrod — Director (source)
• Lindsay Wallace — Director (source)
• Keira Burns — Director (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~4.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 14.2% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (11/03/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (09/07/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Beatrice Hope Farrer
• Christopher Charles Hassall
• Elvira Woodhead
• Rebecca Elizabeth Murdoch
• Robert James Newhouse
• Rowena Herbert
• Samuel Priestley
• William Downs
• William Lewis Lifford

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

Operates in: Bradford City · Cumbria · Lancashire · Leeds City · North Yorkshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with COMMUNITY MATTERS (YORKSHIRE).

• COMMUNITY MATTERS (YORKSHIRE) income £144k
• NORTH YORK MOORS NATIONAL PARK TRUST income £131k
• DERBYSHIRE DALES COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE income £404k
• YORK CONSERVATION TRUST LIMITED income £4.4m
• North Yorkshire Moors Railway Trust income £9.8m
• EAST DURHAM COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TRUST LTD income £1.7m

Side by side with its peers

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