YORK CIVIC TRUST

Registered charity 229336 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q70454777 · Wikipedia

To preserve, protect and advise on the historic fabric of York. To publish promote and educate the public and encourage their participation in cultural activities. To provide advocacy in areas of concern to York. To make grants which concur with the trust's objectives. To raise and pay funds in the furtherance of the objects and co-operate with others having similar objects.

Objects

The charity is established for the public benefit for the following purposes in the area comprising York and its surroundings which area shall hereinafter be referred to as "the area of benefit" (i) To promote high standards of planning and architecture in or affecting the area of benefit. (ii) To educate the public in the geography, history, natural history and architecture of the area of benefit. (iii) To secure the preservation protection development and improvement of features of historic or public interest in the area of benefit

Area of benefit: CITY OF YORK AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD

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

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: York, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £193,811 for the year, driven by increased charitable activity costs. However, the organization maintains a strong financial position with total net assets of £8,113,180 and free reserves of £1,212,202, which significantly exceed the trustees' policy target of £250,000. The trustees confirm that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HPH. 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.

• 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 policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/01/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~21.0 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 11.7% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Delma Joan Tomlinchair
• CHRISTOPHER CHARLES WEBB
• Gillian Mary Fleming
• Helen Margaret Dobson
• Matthew Seddon
• Professor Nicola Jane Milner
• Richard Charles Fernyhough Thompson
• Richard William Smith
• SUSAN LESLEY PALMER
• William Roger Woolley

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

Operates in: City Of York

Income and spending

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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 YORK CEMETERY TRUST.

• YORK CEMETERY TRUST income £322k
• YORK CONSERVATION TRUST LIMITED income £4.4m
• YORK TRAVELLERS TRUST income £439k
• YORK CITIZENS' THEATRE TRUST LIMITED income £6.6m
• YORK CENTRE FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE income £1.7m
• YORK CITY CHURCH income £489k

Side by side with its peers

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