KNEBWORTH HOUSE EDUCATION AND PRESERVATION TRUST

Registered charity 289346 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The object of the Trust is to preserve, conserve, restore and maintain for the educational and aesthetic benefit of the public now and in the future the Mansion known as Knebworth House, Knebworth in the County of Hertford, its historically associated chattels, muniments and other contents, the surrounding gardens, outbuildings, forest and parkland

Objects

(I) TO PRESERVE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE NATION BUILDINGS OF NATIONAL HISTORIC OR ARCITECTURAL OR ARTISTICK INTEREST AND IMPORTANCE AND TO PROTECT AND IMPROVE THE AMENITIES OF SUCH BUILDINGS AND THERI SURROUNDINGS. (II) TO PRESERVE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE NATION AND AS AN ADJUNCT TO ANY BUILDINGS AS AFORESAID FURNITURE PICURES AND OTHER CHATTELS O NAIONAL HISTORIC OR ARTISTIC INTEREST. (III) TO ADVANCE THE HISTORICAL ARCHITECTURAL AND AESTHETIC EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC AND IN

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds decreased from £2,597,774 to £2,206,272 due to a net movement in funds of £391,502, driven by a £295,000 loss on the revaluation of tangible fixed assets. Despite this, the trustees report that the year-end reserves represent over four months' non-discretionary expenditure, satisfying their stated reserves policy.

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 5 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.

• 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
• 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
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 29/02/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~34.6 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 7.1 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.0%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ROBERT HARRISON ICETON RUTTERchair
• EDWARD LYTTON COBBOLD
• John Francis Dudley Hoy
• Marcus Louis Taverner · trustee of 1 other charity
• Morwenna Gray Lytton Cobbold
• THE HONOURABLE RICHARD STUCLEY LYTTON COBBOLD

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

Operates in: Hertfordshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with STEPPING STONE PRE-SCHOOL KNEBWORTH.

• STEPPING STONE PRE-SCHOOL KNEBWORTH income £144k
• HERTFORDSHIRE COMMUNITY NURSES CHARITY income £104k
• THE STOWE HOUSE PRESERVATION TRUST income £515k
• KNOWLE PARK TRUST income £122k
• WENTWORTH WOODHOUSE PRESERVATION TRUST income £7.1m
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Side by side with its peers

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