MARC FITCH FUND

Registered charity 313303 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MARC FITCH FUND LIMITED

The Marc Fitch Fund supports research and publication, chiefly in the local and regional history of the British Isles, in the fields of Archaeology, History, Historical Geography, History of Art and Architecture, Heraldry and Genealogy.

Objects

TO IMPROVE AND DIFFUSE KNOWLEDGE, AND TO PROMOTE AND FURTHER THE STUDY OF AND EDUCATION AND RESEARCH, IN OR IN CONNECTION WITH ALL OR ANY OF THE FOLLOWING SUBJECTS, NAMELY, ARCHAEOLOGY, HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY, THE HISTORY OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE, HERALDRY, GENEALOGY THE USE OF ARCHIVES AND OTHER ANTIQUARIAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL OR HISTORICAL STUDIES.

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.

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

Registered contact address: Camden, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the audit was substantially complete with no significant changes to the audit plan and no outstanding matters to resolve prior to issuing the opinion. The auditor anticipates issuing an unmodified audit report, indicating that the financial statements are fairly presented without material misstatement. No serious incidents or material uncertainties affecting the charity's operations were identified during the audit.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Gravita. Discloses 3 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 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
• Risk management
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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 00569597 · Financial health read from its filings

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.

• FISHER, Richard Kenneth — director, appointed 18/09/2024on trustee list
• SUMMERSON, Henry Rosewell Thomas — director, appointed 20/09/2023on trustee list
• DAVIS, John Harry — director, appointed 20/09/2023on trustee list
• FORD, John Edward — director, appointed 20/09/2023on trustee list
• SWEET, Rosemary Helen, Professor — director, appointed 13/09/2016not on trustee list
• PAYNE, Christiana Joan Elizabeth Ruth, Professor — director, appointed 19/04/2012on trustee list
• WHITE, David Vines — director, appointed 25/09/2008on trustee list
• HALL, Michael — director, appointed 27/09/2007not on trustee list
• ALLASON-JONES, Lindsay — director, appointed 27/09/2006on trustee list
• FORDE, Helen — director, appointed 17/04/2002on trustee list
• BLAIR, William John, Dr — director, appointed 17/04/2002on trustee list
• CATLING, Christopher Paul — secretary, appointed 01/06/2011

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Lindsay Allason-Joneschair · trustee of 3 other charities
• CHRISTIANA PAYNE
• DAVID VINES WHITE · trustee of 1 other charity
• DR JOHN BLAIR
• Dr Henry Rosewell Thomas Summerson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr John Harry Davis
• Helen Forde · trustee of 3 other charities
• John Edward Ford · trustee of 1 other charity
• MICHAEL HAROLD WEBSTER HALL FSA
• Richard Fisher
• Roey Sweet · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Canada · Ireland · Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales · United States

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY TRUST.

• MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY TRUST income £541k
• SUFFOLK INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY AND HISTORY income £36k
• MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION income £3.7m
• INTERNATIONAL NAUTICAL ARCHAEOLOGY FOUNDATION income £782k
• GREEK ARCHAEOLOGICAL COMMITTEE (UK) income £47k
• THE FALKLANDS MARITIME HERITAGE TRUST income £1.5m

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