THE GEORGIAN GROUP

Registered charity 209934 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q3777369 · Wikipedia

The Georgian Group exists to protect and preserve Georgian buildings, to stimulate public knowledge of Georgian architecture and to promote appreciation fot he classical tradition. It runs a casework programme in England and Wales, fulfilling a statutory duty to advise planning authorities on applications ton demolish or alter listed Georgian buildings, and runs activities for members.

Objects

(1) TO SAVE FROM DESTRUCTION OR DISFIGUREMENT GEORGIAN BUILDINGS, WHETHER INDIVIDUALLY OR AS PART OF A GROUP, MONUMENTS, PARKS AND GARDENS OF ARCHITECTURAL AND HISTORIC INTEREST AND, WHERE NECESSARY, ENCOURAGE THEIR APPROPRIATE REPAIR OR RESTORATION AND THE PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THEIR SETTING. (2) TO STIMULATE PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE AND APPRECIATION OF GEORGIAN ARCHITECTURE AND TOWN PLANNING; OF GEORGIAN TASTE AS DISPLAYED IN THE APPLIED ARTS DESIGN AND CRAFTMANSHIP, AND ITS INFLUENCE ON LATER PERIODS.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a net loss of £25,465 before investment gains, resulting in a net movement in funds of £409,015. The trustees report that total reserves of £6,222,490 are sufficient to meet operational requirements while fundraising strategies are developed. The auditors confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Godfrey Wilson Limited. Discloses 6 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Georgian Group (matched by registered charity number).

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~22.2 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 13.2% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (14/05/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (27/11/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• PAUL JOHN RUSSELL ZISMANchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Andrew Grant Colin Thom
• Caroline Stanford
• Duncan Henry Wilson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Edward Rupert Holland
• George Robert Carter
• Harriet Wennberg
• Kerenjit Kaur Phull
• Mark David Ryten Hammond
• Martin David Vincent Randall
• Patrick John Newberry
• VALERIE MAE HUMPHREY
• William Michael Palin · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with IRISH GEORGIAN SOCIETY LONDON.

• IRISH GEORGIAN SOCIETY LONDON income £87k
• THE JOHN GREGSON TRUST income £31k
• THE GEOGRAPHICAL ASSOCIATION income £1.2m
• THE HACKNEY HISTORIC BUILDINGS TRUST income £197k
• CHURCHES CONSERVATION income £408k
• THE CORNWALL BUILDINGS PRESERVATION TRUST income £150k

Side by side with its peers

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