THE YORKSHIRE HISTORIC CHURCHES TRUST

Registered charity 1175099 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as YHCT

Making of Grants for the maintenance and repair of Christian churches in Yorkshire (boundaries as before 1974)

Objects

THE OBJECT OF THE CIO IS, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, THE PRESERVATION, REPAIR AND MAINTENANCE OF CHURCHES IN YORKSHIRE AND OF MONUMENTS, FITTINGS, FIXTURES, STAINED GLASS, FURNITURE, ORNAMENTS, BELLS, CLOCK AND CHIMES IN SUCH CHURCHES AND OF THE CHURCHYARD BELONGING TO ANY SUCH CHURCHES IN PARTICULAR (BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY) BY MEANS OF FINANCIAL SUPPORT.FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS CLAUSE, "CHURCHES" SHALL INCLUDE ANY CHURCH OR CHAPEL USED FOR PUBLIC WORSHIP FOR THE TIME BEING WHETHER BELONGING TO OR USED BY ANY CHRISTIAN DENOMINATION AND "YORKSHIRE" SHALL INCLUDE THE NORTH RIDING, WEST RIDING, EAST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE TOGETHER WITH THE CITY AND COUNTY OF YORK AND THE CITY AND COUNTY OF KINGSTON-UPON-HULL FORMERLY EXISTING BEFORE THE COMING INTO FORCE OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1972 ON 1 APRIL 1974.

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

Registered contact address: York, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Charity holds total net assets of £1,377,166, comprising a General Fund deficit of £45,179 and an Investment Fund valued at £1,275,900. The Trustees consider the available resources, including the Investment Fund, to be sufficient to meet current liabilities and future grant awards. The Independent Examiner confirmed that no material matters were identified that would cast doubt on 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.

• 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
• Serious incident reporting 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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• The Liz and Terry Bramall Foundation — “We are grateful to all our current donors, including: The Liz and Terry Bramall Foundation” (source page)

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (21/07/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (13/12/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Christopher Michael Garside Wildblood
• Clive Roland Lloyd · trustee of 4 other charities
• Dr Julie Patricia Banham · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Katherine Fleur Giles
• EDMUND JOHN SEWARD ANDERSON · trustee of 1 other charity
• Joel Brice Oliver Brookfield
• NICHOLAS ALEXANDER CYRIL HILDYARD
• RICHARD CHARLES BAILEY
• SYLVIA JOHNSON · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout England

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 HEREFORDSHIRE HISTORIC CHURCHES TRUST.

• THE HEREFORDSHIRE HISTORIC CHURCHES TRUST income £122k
• GLOUCESTERSHIRE HISTORIC CHURCHES TRUST income £266k
• BERKSHIRE HISTORIC CHURCHES TRUST income £30k
• LEICESTER AND LEICESTERSHIRE HISTORIC CHURCHES PRESERVATION TRUST income £42k
• YORKSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY income £87k
• NORTHAMPTONSHIRE HISTORIC CHURCHES TRUST income £112k

Side by side with its peers

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