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.

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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.

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 7.0 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 (2.9%) (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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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with YORK ARCHAEOLOGICAL TRUST FOR EXCAVATION AND RESEARCH LIMITED.

• YORK ARCHAEOLOGICAL TRUST FOR EXCAVATION AND RESEARCH LIMITED income £11.6m
• HERRING HOUSE TRUST (GREAT YARMOUTH) income £1.1m
• YORK CONSERVATION TRUST LIMITED income £4.4m
• YORK CIVIC TRUST income £500k
• THE NORWICH HISTORIC CHURCHES TRUST LIMITED income £321k
• RICHMONDSHIRE BUILDING PRESERVATION TRUST LTD income £2.2m

Side by side with its peers

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