THE BEDFORDSHIRE AND HERTFORDSHIRE HISTORIC CHURCHES TRUST

Registered charity 1197228 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To raise funds, and co-operate with other grant-making bodies, to make funds available for the restoration, preservation, repair and reconstruction of historic churches and chapels. To secure funds from the Trust's Supporters, from an annual sponsored bike ride and other fund-raising events. Educational and other events for Supporters: Study Day; Church Tours.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE THE RESTORATION, MAINTENANCE, PRESERVATION, REPAIR AND RECONSTRUCTION OF CHURCHES AND CHURCHYARDS SITUATED FOR THE TIME BEING IN BEDFORDSHIRE AND HERTFORDSHIRE AND IN THAT PART OF THE LONDON BOROUGH OF BARNET WITHIN THE DIOCESE OF SAINT ALBANS, AND OF ANY FIXTURES IN ANY SUCH CHURCHES OR CHURCHYARDS.

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: North Hertfordshire, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total unrestricted funds carried forward were £83,498, which is below the trustees' stated reserves policy target of the lower of one year’s unrestricted net income or £50,000. The charity reported a net income of £88,995 for the year, supported by significant donations and legacies, while maintaining adequate resources for future operations.

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.

• 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
• 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 3 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 28/05/2024, 118 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Beds & Herts Historic Churches Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2024)

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (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 (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (01/10/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Madeline Anne Russellchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Andrew David Lambourne
• Dr Christopher Paul Green
• Dr Mark Newbery
• RICHARD CHRISTOPHER HENRY GENOCHIO · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Lynda Klimas
• Richard James North · trustee of 3 other charities
• STUART ARCHIBALD RUSSELL
• Trevor William Groom
• William Andrew John Marsterson

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

Operates in: Barnet · Bedford · Hertfordshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with OXFORDSHIRE HISTORIC CHURCHES TRUST (2016).

• OXFORDSHIRE HISTORIC CHURCHES TRUST (2016) income £401k
• BERKSHIRE HISTORIC CHURCHES TRUST income £30k
• THE HEREFORDSHIRE HISTORIC CHURCHES TRUST income £122k
• THE SUFFOLK HISTORIC CHURCHES TRUST income £276k
• BUCKINGHAMSHIRE HISTORIC CHURCHES TRUST income £67k
• GLOUCESTERSHIRE HISTORIC CHURCHES TRUST income £266k

Side by side with its peers

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