Country Houses Foundation

Registered charity 1111049 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as Historic Houses Foundation

Grant making trust with the objects of:to advance the preservation for the public benefit of buildings of sufficient historic or architectural significance or importance to merit preservation together with their gardens and grounds and:to protect and augment the amenities and furnishings of any such buildings , gardens and grounds.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net increase in funds of £111,231 for the year ended 30 June 2025, driven by investment gains and incoming resources. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves are maintained at a designated contingency level of £500,000, which aligns with the stated policy of maintaining funds equivalent to not less than six months' grants. The charity operates with a single employee and administrative costs representing 12% of incoming resources, indicating a lean operational structure.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Randall and Payne LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "within" (FY2024) to "above" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05433717

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• BOYINGTON, Amy, Dr — director, appointed 21/05/2025on trustee list
• DE MOUBRAY, Amicia Kathryn — director, appointed 17/05/2023not on trustee list
• RICE, Matthew Frederick William — director, appointed 03/03/2022on trustee list
• COMPTON, Richard Clephane — director, appointed 20/02/2019on trustee list
• JARDINE, Andrew Colin Douglas — director, appointed 18/11/2015on trustee list
• MUSSON, Jeremy Gibson Dixon — director, appointed 15/05/2013not on trustee list
• KING, Mary Elizabeth — director, appointed 25/11/2009on trustee list
• PARSONS, John Christopher, Sir — director, appointed 17/10/2006not on trustee list
• HUDSON, Norman William — director, appointed 22/04/2005not on trustee list
• PEARCEY, Oliver Henry James — director, appointed 22/04/2005on trustee list
• BARBER, Nicholas Charles Faithorn — director, appointed 22/04/2005on trustee list
• WILLS, Martin Peter — secretary, appointed 18/11/2025

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (86% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (03/09/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Jeremy Musson FSAchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Amicia de Moubray · trustee of 2 other charities
• Dr Amy Boyington
• Jane Elizabeth Jones-Warner
• MARY ELIZABETH KING
• MATTHEW RICE
• NICHOLAS CHARLES FAITHORN BARBER
• NORMAN WILLIAM HUDSON OBE
• Oliver Pearcey · trustee of 1 other charity
• RICHARD CLEPHANE COMPTON · trustee of 1 other charity
• SIR JOHN CHRISTOPHER PARSONS KCVO
• Sir Andrew Jardine

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE HISTORIC ENGLAND FOUNDATION.

• THE HISTORIC ENGLAND FOUNDATION income £361k
• MOTHECOMBE PRESERVATION TRUST income £159k
• WORLD MONUMENTS FUND BRITAIN LIMITED income £3.0m
• LYTHAM TOWN TRUST LIMITED income £194k
• BURGHLEY HOUSE PRESERVATION TRUST LIMITED income £17.7m
• HAREWOOD HOUSE TRUST LIMITED income £6.0m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.