THE ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE FUND

Registered charity 266780 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · 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.

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Latest income
£3.3m
Latest spending
£3.3m
Registered
1974
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The provided text consists of biographical notes for board members and a list of executive staff, without containing financial statements or narrative reports. Consequently, there is no information available to assess the charity's financial health, reserves, or operational performance.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

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.

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

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

Total income
£3.3m
Total spending
£3.3m
Cost of raising funds
£95k
Reserves (reported)
£586k
Employees
22

Reported reserves equal ~2.2 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

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

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£3.3m£3.3m
31/03/2024£6.2m£5.6m
31/03/2023£4.1m£4.2m
31/03/2022£7.1m£6.9m
31/03/2021£8.8m£8.4m

Common questions

Is THE ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE FUND financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The provided text consists of biographical notes for board members and a list of executive staff, without containing financial statements or narrative reports. Consequently, there is no information available to assess the charity's financial health, reserves, or operational performance.

Who funds THE ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE FUND?

Funders whose own accounts filings name THE ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE FUND as a grant recipient include POWER TO CHANGE TRUST, THE PILGRIM TRUST, THE BRANCH TRUST, CHIPPING NORTON (CIO).

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
POWER TO CHANGE TRUSTFY2022£400kCommunity Tech: Makers and Maintainers Fund
THE PILGRIM TRUSTFY2023£150kHistoric Assets into Community Ownership; supporting early-stage feasibility work to find new uses for historic buildings in England over three years (2023-2025
THE BRANCH TRUST, CHIPPING NORTON (CIO)FY2022£2kGrants

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Heritage Fund04/06/2025£250k"The AHF: 50 Years of Transforming Heritage"
UK government01/04/2024£500kALB-Historic England-Historic Assets into Community Ownership
The National Lottery Heritage Fund02/03/2023£5.0m"Architectural Heritage Fund strategic partnership: Heritage Development Trust initiative"
UK government01/04/2020£1.0mCultural Recovery Fund: Underwriting of Endowments and Bad Debts
UK government01/04/2020£1.1mCultural Recovery Fund: Business Grants
UK government01/04/2019£5.8mALB-Historic England-Architectural Heritage Fund - Transforming Places Through Heritage
UK government01/04/2019£2.0mALB-Historic England-Architectural Heritage Fund - Transforming Places Through Heritage
UK government01/04/2019£5.2mALB-Historic England-Architectural Heritage Fund - Transforming Places Through Heritage
UK government01/04/2019£116kALB-Historic England-Support For Voluntary Sector Regeneration Of Historic Buildings
UK government01/04/2019£67kALB-Historic England-Heritage at Risk Support Officers
UK government01/04/2019£2.4mALB-Historic England-Architectural Heritage Fund - Transforming Places Through Heritage
UK government01/04/2018£242kALB-HistoricEngland-DCMS grant - Architectural Heritage Fund - Transforming Places Through Heritage
UK government01/04/2018£169kALB-HistoricEngland-Support For Voluntary Sector Regeneration Of Historic Buildings
The National Lottery Heritage Fund17/10/2017£2.5m"Heritage Impact Fund"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund25/02/1997£400k"Regeneration Through Heritage"

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

FunderSimilar charities fundedAmount to them
PAUL HAMLYN FOUNDATION1£85k
THE JONES 1986 CHARITABLE TRUST1£10k
THE GROCERS' CHARITY1£5k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE SOMERSET ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
THE ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE FUND£3.3m—0unclear—no doubt
THE SOMERSET ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY FY2024£571k—0unclear—no doubt
FRIENDS OF BATH ABBEY FY2025£144k—0unclear—no doubt
THE COLNE VALLEY PARK TRUST FY2025£133k—0unclear—no doubt
BROOKLANDS MUSEUM TRUST LIMITED FY2024£5.7m——unclear—no doubt
CITY ARTS (NOTTINGHAM) LTD FY2025£222k—0unclear—no doubt

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.