HERTFORDSHIRE BUILDING PRESERVATION TRUST LTD

Registered charity 232686 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

WHAT WE ARE ABOUT - Preserving buildings of architectural and historic importance - Helping to rescue buildings at risk - Organising conservation seminars, exhibitions and visits - Operating learning and outreach programmes for young people - Operating two heritage museums ....in the County of Hertfordshire.

Objects

TO PRESERVE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE NATION BUILDINGS OF ESPECIAL BEAUTY OR ESPECIAL HISTORIC OR ARCHITECTURAL INTEREST.

Area of benefit: HERTFORDSHIRE

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 · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net movement in funds of -£181,270 for the year, driven by a deficit on charitable activities and losses on the revaluation of fixed assets. Total unrestricted reserves stood at £1,790,124, which the trustees consider sufficient to meet planned refurbishment costs, though central administration costs increased significantly to £323,807.

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.

• 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
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alexandre Miguel Marques Durao
• Christopher James Radcliffe Paxman
• Cllr Alexander Stuart Burnett Walkington
• Edward Austin James
• Imran Tunio
• Jeremy James English
• Jonathan Mark Taylor
• MR TIM BELL
• Nigel Wighton
• Richard Arthur Charles Thake

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

Operates in: Hertfordshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with RICHMONDSHIRE BUILDING PRESERVATION TRUST LTD.

• RICHMONDSHIRE BUILDING PRESERVATION TRUST LTD income £2.2m
• HERTFORDSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £10.7m
• THE CORNWALL BUILDINGS PRESERVATION TRUST income £150k
• Worcestershire Building Preservation Trust income £1.3m
• THE BEDFORDSHIRE AND HERTFORDSHIRE HISTORIC CHURCHES TRUST income £304k
• LONDON HISTORIC BUILDINGS TRUST LTD income £116k

Side by side with its peers

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