ARCHIVES OF IT

Registered charity 1164198 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

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THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THROUGH THE PROVISION AND MAINTENANCE OF A DIGITAL ARCHIVE RELATING TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRIES IN THE UK

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 · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: East Hertfordshire, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that net income for the year was £127,602 against expenditure of £97,433, resulting in a surplus. The charity's total funds increased to £77,507, comprising £28,721 in unrestricted funds and £48,786 in restricted funds. The trustees confirmed that assets are adequate to fulfill all obligations.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 3 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.

• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• 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

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

• JOHN CHRISTOPHER CARRINGTONchair
• BEVERLY CAROLYN CLARKE MBE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Michael Short CBE
• John Percival Leighfield · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor Martin Campbell-Kelly
• Professor William Dutton
• Timothy Gregory

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

Operates in: 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 NATIONAL ARCHIVES TRUST.

• THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES TRUST income £538k
• The ITSA Digital Trust income £346k
• ASSOCIATION FOR INDUSTRIAL ARCHAEOLOGY income £333k
• DIGIT<ALL> income £355k
• THE WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGISTS CHARITY income £378k
• THE UK ACADEMY FOR INFORMATION SYSTEMS income £41k

Side by side with its peers

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