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)

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.

What the accounts disclose

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.

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

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

Trustees

Alan Wakefield Francis
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 3 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

Financial year end	Income	Spending
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?

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 BRANCH TRUST, CHIPPING NORTON (CIO).

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount
POWER TO CHANGE TRUST	FY2022	£400k
THE BRANCH TRUST, CHIPPING NORTON (CIO)	FY2022	£2k

Government & lottery funding

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

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	04/06/2025	£250k	"The AHF: 50 Years of Transforming Heritage"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	02/03/2023	£5.0m	"Architectural Heritage Fund strategic partnership: Heritage Development Trust initiative"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	17/10/2017	£2.5m	"Heritage Impact Fund"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	25/02/1997	£400k	"Regeneration Through Heritage"

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