OXFORDSHIRE HISTORIC CHURCHES TRUST (2016)

Registered charity 1168567 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as OHCT

Providing financial support to historic churches in Oxfordshire in order to preserve, repair, upkeep and restore them.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE:FOR THE BENEFIT OF BOTH LOCAL COMMUNITIES AND THE WIDER PUBLIC, TO PRESERVE AND ENHANCE OXFORDSHIRE’S HISTORIC CHURCHES USED FOR PUBLIC WORSHIP AND THEIR ASSOCIATED STRUCTURES AND CONTENTS.

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

Causes: Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Oxford, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's unrestricted reserves stood at £786,025, which is below the stated policy target of 1.5 to 2.0 times annual income. The charity reported a net decrease in funds of £75,354 for the year, driven by a reduction in grant-giving expenditure compared to the previous year, while maintaining investment income as its primary funding source.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Gravita Audit Oxford LLP. 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.

• 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
• 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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (12/02/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Stephen John Gosschair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Linda Monckton · trustee of 1 other charity
• George Richard Wingfield Digby · trustee of 1 other charity
• Natalie Victoria Merry · trustee of 1 other charity
• Paul Martin Sandford · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor Malcolm Russell Airs · trustee of 2 other charities
• Richard Owen Hughes · trustee of 1 other charity
• STEPHEN SLACK CBE · trustee of 2 other charities
• Sir Andrew Haines OBE · trustee of 3 other charities

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

Operates in: Oxfordshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE BEDFORDSHIRE AND HERTFORDSHIRE HISTORIC CHURCHES TRUST.

• THE BEDFORDSHIRE AND HERTFORDSHIRE HISTORIC CHURCHES TRUST income £304k
• GLOUCESTERSHIRE HISTORIC CHURCHES TRUST income £266k
• THE OXFORD GOOD STEWARDS TRUST income £907k
• THE OXFORDSHIRE BRANCH OF THE CAMPAIGN TO PROTECT RURAL ENGLAND income £905k
• THE SUFFOLK HISTORIC CHURCHES TRUST income £276k
• THE HEREFORDSHIRE HISTORIC CHURCHES TRUST income £122k

Side by side with its peers

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