THE CORNWALL HERITAGE TRUST LIMITED

Registered charity 291607 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q17986667 · Wikipedia

Acquisition and maintenance of land and buildings of significance to Cornwall's Heritage and presentation of such sites to to the public. Provision of grants to support preservation of buildings artefacts and other items or contributions of significance to Cornwall's Heritage. Education of of the public and in particular education of young people about Cornwall's Heritage.

Objects

TO ACQUIRE LAND OF PARTICULAR BEAUTY, HISTORICAL, CULTURAL AND RELIGIOUS SIGNIFICANCE AND TO PRESERVE AND RESTORE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE NATION PROPERTY IN CORNWALL AND THE ISLES OF SCILLY IN THE FORM OF BUILDINGS.

Area of benefit: CORNWALL

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

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £2,446,169, which exceeds its stated policy target of six months of average operating costs. The independent auditor confirmed that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by BK Plus Audit Limited. 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• 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
• Volunteer management

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

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Cornwall Heritage Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Cathy Woolcock — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Lt Col Richard Trant — Chairman (source)
• Mrs Alison Davey — Vice Chairman (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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

17 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (16 freehold); recorded price paid £85k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~28.3 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 15.7% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (10/07/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• LT COL RICHARD TRANTchair
• ALISON DAVEY
• Ann Preston-Jones
• ELIZABETH CLARE JACQUES
• Matthew Stuart Dickinson
• Michael Johns
• Peter Charles Herring · trustee of 1 other charity
• Richard Granville Farrant

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

Operates in: Cornwall

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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

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.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE CORNWALL BUILDINGS PRESERVATION TRUST.

• THE CORNWALL BUILDINGS PRESERVATION TRUST income £150k
• THE CORNWALL SUSTAINABLE BUILDING TRUST income £76k
• THE HERITAGE OF LONDON TRUST LIMITED income £808k
• ROYAL CORNWALL HOSPITALS NHS TRUST CHARITABLE FUND income £2.8m
• THE CRESWELL HERITAGE TRUST income £1.6m
• THE ROYAL CORNWALL POLYTECHNIC SOCIETY LIMITED income £544k

Side by side with its peers

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