POSTAL HERITAGE TRUST

Registered charity 1102360 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE BRITISH POSTAL MUSEUM AND ARCHIVE

Educational Charity working to make the Royal Mail Archive and the Postal Heritage Trust collection accessible as widely as possible

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £267,702 for the year, though excluding depreciation resulted in a surplus of £766,000. The trustees identified a material uncertainty regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern due to defaulted loan obligations to Royal Mail Group and Post Office Ltd, although they believe this is substantially mitigated by a Heads of Terms agreement. Unrestricted reserves stood at £11,792,000, with unrestricted cash of £1,929,000 at year-end.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Haysmac LLP. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Property (HM Land Registry)

5 registered titles 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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.5 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (45% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 40.1% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Susan Jane Wilkinsonchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Ailbhe Mary McNabola · trustee of 1 other charity
• Alix Langley · trustee of 1 other charity
• Andrew Adegbemi · trustee of 1 other charity
• Courtney Jones · trustee of 1 other charity
• Daniel Richard Wolfe · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jacqueline Neville · trustee of 1 other charity
• Laura Anne Wright · trustee of 1 other charity
• Mark Rowan Amsden · trustee of 1 other charity
• Nicola Jane Koppelmann · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rachel Georgina Kuhn · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with NATIONAL PARALYMPIC HERITAGE TRUST.

• NATIONAL PARALYMPIC HERITAGE TRUST income £505k
• THE POST OFFICE REMEMBRANCE FELLOWSHIP CIO income £608k
• THE TRUST FOR WELSH ARCHAEOLOGY income £3.5m
• ROYAL DOCKS TRUST (LONDON) income £281k
• THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES TRUST income £374k
• THE HERITAGE OF LONDON TRUST LIMITED income £808k

Side by side with its peers

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