GREAT YARMOUTH PRESERVATION TRUST

Registered charity 280628 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Trust's objects and principal activities are to preserve for the benefit of the inhabitants of Great Yarmouth buildings of special beauty or of historic or architectural interest. The Trust is developing projects which deliver training in practical conservation skills.

Objects

TO PRESERVE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE BOROUGH OF GREAT YARMOUTH AND OF THE NATION, WHATEVER OF THE HISTORICAL, ARCHITECTURAL AND CONSTRUCTIONAL HERITAGE MAY EXIST IN AND AROUND THE BOROUGH OF GREAT YARMOUTH IN THE FORM OF (A) BUILDINGS OF PARTICULAR BEAUTY OR HISTORICAL ARCHITECTURAL OR CONSTRUCTIONAL INTEREST: (B) LAND OF PARTICULAR BEAUTY OR HISTORICAL INTEREST OR (C) FIXED MACHINERY OF HISTORICAL INTEREST.

Area of benefit: BOROUGH OF GREAT YARMOUTH

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Great Yarmouth, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a deficit of £45,048 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in a decrease in cash and cash equivalents. Per the trustees' report, the charity is working to build resilience and achieve organisational self-sufficiency by 2029, having sold a property to strengthen reserves and secure significant grant funding for major restoration projects.

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 4 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01492613
• Trading subsidiary: NORFOLK CONSERVATION LIMITED Companies House 09516279

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• The National Lottery Heritage Fund — “Great Yarmouth’s art deco pub The Iron Duke awarded £2.4million by The National Lottery Heritage Fund” (source page)
• King Charles Charitable Fund — “King Charles Charitable Fund” (source page)

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• RUDA, Alison Louise — director, appointed 06/05/2025on trustee list
• SARGSYAN, Azalia Ashoti — director, appointed 06/05/2025not on trustee list
• DYE, Emily — director, appointed 27/11/2023on trustee list
• STENHOUSE, Katy — director, appointed 04/05/2023on trustee list
• FREEMAN, Geoffrey Eynon — director, appointed 16/05/2019on trustee list
• PATTERSON, Paul Bernard, Mr. — director, appointed 16/12/2014on trustee list
• FAKES, Andrew James — director, appointed 11/02/2014on trustee list
• WILLIAMSON, Bernard John — director, appointed 15/05/2012on trustee list
• DAVIES, Paul, Dr — director, appointed 11/12/2008on trustee list
• TAYLOR, Michael — directoron trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

20 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (18 freehold); recorded price paid £843k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~0.5 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (69% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• BERNARD JOHN WILLIAMSONchair
• Alison Louise Ruda
• Andrew James Fakes
• Azailia Sargsyan
• Dr PAUL DAVIES · trustee of 1 other charity
• Emily Dye
• GEOFFREY FREEMAN · trustee of 4 other charities
• Katy Stenhouse
• MICHAEL TAYLOR
• Marlene Ellen Fairhead
• Paul Bernard Patterson

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

Operates in: Norfolk

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with YARMOUTH (ISLE OF WIGHT) TOWN TRUST.

• YARMOUTH (ISLE OF WIGHT) TOWN TRUST income £55k
• THE FARNHAM (BUILDING PRESERVATION) TRUST LIMITED income £30k
• THE PUBLIC PURPOSES SHARE OF THE DARTMOUTH TRUST income £93k
• TYNE AND WEAR BUILDING PRESERVATION TRUST LIMITED income £1.1m
• THE HAMPSHIRE BUILDINGS PRESERVATION TRUST LIMITED income £862k
• SLT BUILDING PRESERVATION TRUST LIMITED income £122k

Side by side with its peers

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