UNITED KINGDOM ANTARCTIC HERITAGE TRUST

Registered charity 1160847 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as UKAHT

Est in 1993, the UK Antarctic Heritage Trust exists to promote a greater public engagement with Antarctica, through heritage conservation, innovative storytelling and effective advocacy. Working in partnership to deliver large scale projects, we aim to inspire and engage audiences with the heritage of this fascinating continent and find new ways to actively inform its future.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN PARTICULAR BY THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF THEIR ANTARCTIC HERITAGE

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

Causes: Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net loss of £37,712 for the year ended 30 April 2025, with total income of £1,645,353 and total expenditure of £1,689,840. Per the trustees' report, free reserves held were £871,658, which the Trustees consider sufficient to meet their policy target of twelve months' operating costs. The charity remains a going concern, supported by investment assets valued at £391,564 and a trading subsidiary that generated significant turnover.

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.

• 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
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: ANTARCTIC HERITAGE LTD. Companies House 05450602
• Registered company of the charity Companies House 09423663

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — UK Antarctic Heritage Trust (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• MIAN, Nighat Mehmuda — director, appointed 22/01/2025on trustee list
• DARKE, Oliver Robert — director, appointed 24/10/2024on trustee list
• BROUGHTON, Hugh Giles Keyworth — director, appointed 25/01/2024on trustee list
• WRIGHT, Thomas — director, appointed 12/07/2023on trustee list
• ANDERSON, Jamie Thorp — director, appointed 12/07/2023on trustee list
• WARRIOR, Claire Louise, Dr — director, appointed 17/04/2023on trustee list
• PAUL-CHOUDHURY, Sumit — director, appointed 28/04/2021on trustee list
• SANDERS, Clive — director, appointed 28/04/2021on trustee list
• SNOWDEN, Victoria — director, appointed 28/04/2021on trustee list
• ARTHUR, Jane Lindsay — director, appointed 23/01/2018on trustee list
• CROSBIE, Paula Kim, Dr — director, appointed 23/01/2018on trustee list
• MAYA, Claudine Michelle — secretary, appointed 22/09/2026

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/04/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~5.9 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (56% 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: 57.1% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (11/05/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Paula Kim Crosbiechair
• Clive Sanders
• Dr Claire Louise Warrior
• Hugh Giles Keyworth Broughton
• Jamie Thorp Anderson
• Jane Arthur
• Nighat Mehmuda Mian
• Oliver Robert Darke
• Sumit Paul-Choudhury · trustee of 2 other charities
• Thomas Knox Wright
• Victoria Snowden

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

Operates in: Antarctica · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 ENGLISH HERITAGE TRUST.

• THE ENGLISH HERITAGE TRUST income £155.2m
• SAVE BRITAIN'S HERITAGE income £367k
• The Anti-Apartheid Legacy Trust income £1.6m
• SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE ON ANTARCTIC RESEARCH income £535k
• THE HISTORIC ENGLAND FOUNDATION income £361k
• GALAPAGOS CONSERVATION TRUST income £2.1m

Side by side with its peers

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