THE HERALDRY SOCIETY

Registered charity 241456 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Society exists to increase and extend interest in and knowledege of heraldry, armory, chivalry, genealogy and allied subjects.

Objects

TO PROMOTE AND ENCOURAGE THE STUDY AND KNOWLEDGE OF AND TO FOSTER AND EXTEND INTEREST IN THE ART AND SCIENCE OF HERALDRY ARMORY ETC., AND TO PROMOTE MEETINGS, LECTURES AND ASSIST RESEARCH IN CONNECTION THEREWITH. TO ESTABLISH A REFERENCE LIBRARY AND PUBLISH BOOKS IN CONNECTION WITH HERALDRY.

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Society reported a surplus of £14,137 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with unrestricted reserves totaling £132,165. Per the trustees' report, this reserve level is significantly above the stated policy target of approximately £15,000, which represents six months of total expenditure. The trustees confirmed that the charity is a going concern with no significant financial commitments.

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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (15/07/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Colin Alastair Lafferty-Smith
• David Glyn Griffiths
• David Llewelyn Phillips · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dewdney Drew
• Graham Michael Padruig Bartram
• JOHN TUNESI OF LIONGAM
• Jenny Baker
• Martin John Davies
• Paul David Jagger
• Peter O'Donoghue
• Robert Stanley Harrison

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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