THE YORKSHIRE DALES MILLENNIUM TRUST

Registered charity 1061687 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q61931155

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.

Objects

(1) TO PROTECT AND CONSERVE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT THE AREA KNOWN AS THE YORKSHIRE DALES PRIMARILY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY INCLUDING ANY BUILDINGS WHICH ARE OF ARCHITECTURAL,HISTORIC OR EDUCATIONAL MERIT AND ALSO INCLUDING FLORA AND FAUNA OF THE AREA, AND TO FURTHER SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSE OR PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE YORKSHIRE DALES AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE..(2) TO FURTHER SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSE AS OUTLINED AT (1) ABOVE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN ANY AREA OR AREAS ADJOINING THE YORKSHIRE DALES AND ELSEWHERE AS THE TRUSTEE SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.(3) TO FURTHER SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS OUTLINED IN (1) ABOVE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN ANY AREA WITHIN ENGLAND AND WALES WHERE IN THE OPINION OF THE TRUSTEES THE EXPERTISE OF THE CHARITY AND ITS OFFICERS IS REQUIRED.

Area of benefit: YORKSHIRE DALES

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 · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £56,904 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £2,338,244 and total expenditure of £2,265,951. Per the trustees' report, free unrestricted reserves stood at £852,412, which the trustees consider to be within their stated policy target of 3-5 months' operational costs. The auditors confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting was appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

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

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 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 14.2% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (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

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE YORKSHIRE DALES SOCIETY.

• THE YORKSHIRE DALES SOCIETY income £156k
• COMMUNITY MATTERS (YORKSHIRE) income £144k
• THE MILLENNIUM OAK TRUST income £287k
• FRIAR PARK MILLENNIUM CENTRE income £357k
• THE DALES TRUST income £270k
• A MILLION REALITIES FOUNDATION income £1.0m

Side by side with its peers

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