THE ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE FUND

Registered charity 266780 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q4787027 · Wikipedia · also known as THE A H F · also registered in Scotland as SC043840 (OSCR)

To promote the permanent preservation for the benefit of the public, buildings monuments or other edifices or structures in the UK. To protect and conserve the character and heritage of the cities towns and villages in and around which such buildings monuments or other edifices of structures exist. To advance public education of and interest in the conservation of the UK's built heritage.

Objects

A) TO PROMOTE THE PERMANENT PRESERVATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC GENERALLY OF BUILDINGS MONUMENTS OR OTHER EDIFICES OF STRUCTURES OF WHATSOEVER KIND AND WHETHER PERMANENT OR ATTACHING TO LAND OR NOT (INCLUDING BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING ANY BUILDING AS DEFINED IN SECTION 336(1) OF THE TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1990) AND WHERESOEVER IN THE UNITED KINGDOM SITUATE OF PARTICULAR BEAUTY OR HISTORICAL ARCHITECTURAL OR CONSTRUCTIONAL INTEREST. B) TO PROTECT AND CONSERVE OR PROMOTE THE PROTECTION AND CONSERVATION OF THE CHARACTER AND HERITAGE OF THE CITIES TOWNS AND VILLAGES IN AND AROUND WHICH SUCH BUILDINGS MONUMENTS OR OTHER EDIFICES OF STRUCTURES EXIST. C) TO ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION OF AND INTEREST IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED KINGDOM AND ITS PEOPLE AND THEREBY TO PROMOTE PUBLIC TASTE AND EDUCATION IN AND CONCERNING THE CONSERVATION OF ITS CREATIVE HERITAGE AND THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF AESTHETIC STANDARDS ATTACHING TO ITS CONTEMPORARY ENVIRONMENT.

Area of benefit: UNITED KINGDOM

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 · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

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What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Financial Conduct Authority. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

Policies the charity declares

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• 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
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

In the news

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• Exeter Cathedral receives Architectural Heritage Fund grant to transform historic Medieval Hall englishcathedrals.co.uk · 01/04/2026

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Ros Kerslake CBE — Chair (source)
• Matthew Mckeague — Chief Executive (source)
• Kelcey Wilson-Lee — Director of Programmes and Deputy CEO (source)
• Fiona Hollands — Director of Finance (source)
• Asha Karbhari — Director of Investment (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.2 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (71% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 2.9% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alan Wakefield Francis · trustee of 1 other charity
• Audrey Carlin
• Dr Neal Ethan Sashore
• Esther Jane Robinson Wild
• Graham Fisher
• Gregory David Pickup
• Joshua Houston Meek
• Karen Olivia Latimer
• Mary Walsh
• Peter Wodehouse Williams · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor Andrew William Westwood
• Robert Benjamin Stirling · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rosaleen Clare Kerslake BA MBA CBE · trustee of 2 other charities
• Stephanie Kathleen Hall-Stead
• Syreeta Bayne

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE HISTORIC ENGLAND FOUNDATION.

• THE HISTORIC ENGLAND FOUNDATION income £361k
• THE ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION income £308k
• THE INSTITUTE OF HISTORIC BUILDING CONSERVATION income £447k
• LONDON HISTORIC BUILDINGS TRUST LTD income £441k
• THE WARGRAVE HERITAGE TRUST income £258k
• THE BLACKHEATH SOCIETY income £82k

Side by side with its peers

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