COLLEGE OF ARMS TRUST

Registered charity 211253 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The principal objects of the Charity are to provide funds for:1) the preservation and repair of the College of Arms building2) the establishment and maintenance of a Museum of Heraldry for the benefit of the public3) such other legally charitable purposes in connection with the College of Arms as the trustees and the College may determine from time-to-time

Objects

(A) PRESERVATION AND REPAIR OF THE HERALDS' COLLEGE QUEEN VICTORIA STREET, LONDON, E.C.4. (B) ESTABLISHMENT AND MAINTENANCE FOR BENEFIT OF PUBLIC OF MUSEUM FOR EXHIBITION OF BOOKS MANUSCRIPTS AND ITEMS OF HERALDIC AND HISTORIC INTEREST.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL

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

Causes: Environment/conservation/heritage · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds decreased by £41,941 to £1,697,554, driven by a significant investment loss of £67,294 which outweighed net income from operations. The charity maintains unrestricted reserves of £1,459,806 and reports adequate resources to continue as a going concern with no material uncertainties identified by the trustees.

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 4 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• THE DUKE OF NORFOLK DLchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• DAVID VINES WHITE · trustee of 1 other charity
• EARL OF ARUNDEL HENRY MILES FITZALAN-HOWARD
• Lady Celestria Magdalen Hales
• RICHARD ANDREW FITZALAN HOWARD · trustee of 1 other charity
• SUSAN MARY WOOD · trustee of 3 other charities
• Sir THOMAS WOODCOCK KCVO DL · trustee of 3 other charities

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

Operates in: City Of London

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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.

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE HAWORTH CHARITABLE TRUST.

• THE HAWORTH CHARITABLE TRUST income £147k
• ROYAL ARTILLERY MUSEUM income £748k
• COLONEL W H WHITBREAD CHARITABLE TRUST income £244k
• THE HERALDRY SOCIETY income £50k
• THE JOHN AND RUTH HOWARD CHARITABLE TRUST income £65k
• Royal Academy Trust income £5.4m

Side by side with its peers

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