COMMONWEALTH HERITAGE FORUM

Registered charity 1183762 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Commonwealth Heritage Forum is a membership organsiation open to all interested in the shared built heritage of the Commonwealth. By sharing expertise, best practice and technical solutions to common conservation problems, we can help disdvantaged communities find creative solutions for heritage at risk, urban regeneration, skills development, education and youth training.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION OF SITES AND BUILDINGS OF CULTURAL AND/OR HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE.

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

Causes: Education/training · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Westminster, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity operated at a net deficit of £66,039 for the year, with total expenditure exceeding total income. Unrestricted reserves stood at £8,788, which the trustees explicitly note is below their policy target of two months' core operating expenditure. The auditor confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate and identified no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue its activities.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Wbg (Audit) Limited. 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
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2025 (received 19/02/2026, 19 days after the 31/01/2026 due date); year ending 31/03/2023 (received 30/06/2024, 151 days after the 31/01/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Francis Maude — Chair (source)
• Philip Davies — Consultant Chief Executive (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (100% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Tara Inniss
• Francis Hugh Cornwallis Maude · trustee of 1 other charity
• Karin Taylor
• Kelvin Ang
• Lucy Fiona Denton
• Nicolette Annabelle Clare Duckham
• Prince Henry Ajene
• Rachel Tranter-Needham · trustee of 2 other charities
• Robert John Edward kerr
• Rowenna Wood
• Thomas Peregrine Bryant

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

Operates in: Akrotiri · Anguilla · Antarctica · Antigua And Barbuda · Australia · Bangladesh · Barbados · Belize · Bermuda · Botswana · British Indian Ocean Territory · British Virgin Islands

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ROYAL BOROUGH OF GREENWICH HERITAGE TRUST.

• ROYAL BOROUGH OF GREENWICH HERITAGE TRUST income £977k
• THE HONORARY TREASURERS FORUM income £39k
• ASSOCIATION OF COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITIES income £8.1m
• Support Cambridgeshire income £587k
• ASSOCIATION OF CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONS income £1.7m
• The WFH Foundation income £88k

Side by side with its peers

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