OXFORDSHIRE VICTORIA COUNTY HISTORY TRUST

Registered charity 1064776 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE VICTORIA HISTORY OF OXFORDSHIRE TRUST AND APPEAL

The objectives of the Trust are to raise funds for the research, preparation and writing of the remaining volumes of the Victoria County History of Oxfordshire.

Objects

TO APPLY SUCH MONIES INVESTMENTS AND PROPERTY AS THE TRUSTEES RECEIVE IN THEIR CAPACITY AS TRUSTEES HEREOF FOR THE RESEARCH PREPARATION AND WRITING OF THE VICTORIA COUNTY HISTORY OF OXFORDSHIRE PROVIDED ALWAYS THAT SUCH OBJECT IS EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE.THE TRUSTEES SHALL HOLD THE CAPITAL AND INCOME OF THE TRUST FUND UPON TRUST FOR THE OBJECT HEREIN BEFORE DECLARED AND IN DEFAULT OF WHICH UPON TRUST FOR SUCH CHARITABLE OBJECTS FOR THE STUDY OF LOCAL HISTORY AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION THINK FIT.

Area of benefit: OXFORDSHIRE

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: South Oxfordshire, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The Trust reported a surplus of £3,138 for the year, with total receipts of £131,900 against payments of £128,762. Net assets stood at £357,424, comprising cash and investment deposits. The trustees noted that charitable donations were lower than recent years and future income forecasts are uncertain, though the Trust remains committed to its research costs.

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
• Risk 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Professor William Hadden Whytechair · trustee of 4 other charities
• Amanda Ponsonby · trustee of 1 other charity
• BRIGADIER JOHN NIGEL MOGG DL
• Christopher John Gorrill Parker
• Donald John Ratcliffe · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Elizabeth Gemmill
• Dr Jill Pellew · trustee of 1 other charity
• Graham Harding
• JOHN HARWOOD DL
• Jane Elizabeth Owen
• Michael Heaton
• PROFESSOR ROBERT EVANS · trustee of 2 other charities
• SARAH JANE TAYLOR · trustee of 3 other charities
• TOM GRAFTON HASSALL OBE

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

Operates in: Oxfordshire

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 LEICESTERSHIRE VICTORIA COUNTY HISTORY TRUST.

• LEICESTERSHIRE VICTORIA COUNTY HISTORY TRUST income £39k
• VICTORIA COUNTY HISTORY OF ESSEX TRUST income £14k
• THE HEREFORDSHIRE VICTORIA COUNTY HISTORY TRUST income £30k
• GLOUCESTERSHIRE COUNTY HISTORY TRUST CIO income £30k
• CUMBRIA COUNTY HISTORY TRUST income £62k
• OXFORDSHIRE HISTORIC CHURCHES TRUST (2016) income £401k

Side by side with its peers

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