WORLD HERITAGE UK

Registered charity 1163364 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WH:UK

World Heritage UK is concerned to promote the conservation and protection of the UK's World Heritage Sites. It does this by working with national agencies to provide information exchange, technical skills development and support across our membership and the general public.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE:TO PROMOTE THE CONSERVATION AND PROTECTION OF THE UK’S WORLD HERITAGE SITES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, DEFINED AS THOSE PLACES CONSIDERED BY THE UNITED NATIONS EDUCATIONAL CULTURAL AND SCIENTIFIC ORGANISATION (UNESCO) AS HAVING SUCH OUTSTANDING UNIVERSAL VALUE THAT THEY WARRANT BEING INSCRIBED ON THE WORLD HERITAGE LIST THROUGH THE POWERS OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION CONCERNING THE PROTECTION OF THE WORLD CULTURAL AND NATURAL HERITAGE, 1972, IN PARTICULAR BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION TO THE FOLLOWING:· SUPPORTING FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC THE DEVELOPMENT OF WORLD HERITAGE SITE NOMINATIONS FOR THE UK’S TENTATIVE LIST SITES, DEFINED AS SITES ON THE UK GOVERNMENT’S OFFICIAL TENTATIVE LIST FOR NOMINATION FOR WORLD HERITAGE STATUS;· ADVANCING THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN GENERAL IN RESPECT OF THE SIGNIFICANCE AND VALUES OF THE UK’S WORLD HERITAGE SITES AND TENTATIVE LIST SITES, AS DEFINED ABOVE;· UNDERTAKING EFFECTIVE ADVOCACY AT ALL LEVELS FOR THE JOINT BENEFIT OF THE UK’S WORLD HERITAGE SITES AND FOR THE WORLD HERITAGE CONVENTION;· FACILITATING AND ENCOURAGING NETWORKING BETWEEN ORGANISATIONS AND INDIVIDUALS THAT PLAY A ROLE IN THE MANAGEMENT OF THE UK’S WH SITES, AND TENTATIVE LIST SITES (AS DEFINED ABOVE) BE THAT AT THE SITE, AGENCY, NGO, GOVERNMENT, CORPORATE OR INDIVIDUAL LEVEL, FOR THE COLLECTIVE BENEFIT OF THE SITES’ MANAGEMENT. THIS MAY INVOLVE: BRINGING PEOPLE TOGETHER; SHARING GOOD PRACTICE; EXCHANGING INFORMATION;· DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION;· UNDERTAKING JOINT PROJECTS AND INITIATIVES;· PROVIDING A PLATFORM FOR PARTNERS TO ACCESS THE UK WORLD HERITAGE COMMUNITY;· LINKING INTERNATIONALLY, WHERE APPROPRIATE; AND· PROMOTING THE UK’S WORLD HERITAGE SITES, IN COLLABORATION WITH KEY PARTNER AGENCIES, TO A NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL AUDIENCE SO AS TO ALLOW MORE PEOPLE TO EXPERIENCE THE SITES IN WAYS THAT ARE APPROPRIATE TO THEIR DIFFERENT SITUATIONS AND PRESSURES, AND WHICH ENABLE THE GENERAL PUBLIC TO BETTER FIND OUT ABOUT, EXPERIENCE, ACCESS AND ENJOY THEM.NOTHING IN THIS CONSTITUTION SHALL AUTHORISE AN APPLICATION OF THE PROPERTY OF THE CIO FOR THE PURPOSES WHICH ARE NOT CHARITABLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 7 OF THE CHARITIES AND TRUSTEE INVESTMENT (SCOTLAND) ACT 2005 AND SECTION 2 OF THE CHARITIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 2008.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

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

Registered contact address: Wiltshire, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that World Heritage UK generated a surplus of £2,125 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total net assets of £31,641. The trustees have designated a reserve sum of £16,343, which they state is equivalent to approximately three months’ core operating costs plus redundancy costs. The independent examiner confirmed that no material matters came to their attention regarding the accounts.

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 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
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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

• Paul Thomas Richard Simonschair
• Ashleigh Ann Taylor · trustee of 1 other charity
• Barry Paul Gamble
• Brandi Hall-Crossgrove
• Dr Amanda Dorothy Barras Chadburn FSA
• Dr Michael Burton
• Graham Neville
• Henry Stuart Owen-John · trustee of 4 other charities
• JUSTIN SCULLY
• James Adam Fraser Wilkinson
• Stephen Ratcliffe · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · 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 HERITAGE TRUST NETWORK.

• HERITAGE TRUST NETWORK income £473k
• CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL UK income £1.3m
• THE HERITAGE TRUST FOR THE NORTH WEST income £2.1m
• THE HERITAGE ALLIANCE income £505k
• SAVE BRITAIN'S HERITAGE income £432k
• PRESERVATION income £92k

Side by side with its peers

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