NIMRUD ARCHAEOLOGICAL TRUST

Registered charity 1202449 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Nimrud Archaeological Trust exists in order to support fieldwork at the site of Nimrud, capital of the Assyrian Empire from the early ninth to the late eighth century BC, including clearance and rebuilding, scientific excavations, geophysical survey, contributing to the design of an on-site Museum, producing educational materials, training, and working with local communities.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELDWORK AT THE SITE OF THE ANCIENT ASSYRIAN CAPITAL CITY OF NIMRUD, A SITE REGISTERED ON THE UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE TENTATIVE LIST, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY CONDUCTING AND SUPPORTING ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELDWORK, BY CONDUCTING AND/OR SUPPORTING UNIVERSITY BASED RESEARCH AND DISSEMINATING THE RESULTS OF THE FIELDWORK AND PROMOTING AWARENESS OF OUR MIDDLE EASTERN ARCHAEOLOGICAL HERITAGE.

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Get email alerts

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

Latest income
£12k
Latest spending
£30k
Registered
2023

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Policies the charity declares

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Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2025

  • Trustee benefits, answered Yes to: any trustee benefit; payments to trustees for services to the charity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2024

  • Trustee benefits, answered Yes to: any trustee benefit; payments to trustees for services to the charity

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 31/12/2023 (received 04/12/2024, 34 days after the 31/10/2024 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/12/2025£12k£30k
31/12/2024£61k£43k
31/12/2023£15k£375

Common questions

Who funds NIMRUD ARCHAEOLOGICAL TRUST?

Funders whose own accounts filings name NIMRUD ARCHAEOLOGICAL TRUST as a grant recipient include THE HEADLEY TRUST, THE IAN ASKEW CHARITABLE TRUST.

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
THE HEADLEY TRUSTFY2025£10kTowards restoring the excavated sites at Nimrud.
THE IAN ASKEW CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2025£500Conservation Fund