LANDSCAPE RESEARCH CENTRE LTD

Registered charity 326710 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To promote and encourage:Education through research into the evolution of British rural landscape from the Palaeolithic to the present day; The provision of education and training in landscape research methodology; the dissemination of the useful results of landscape research.

Objects

THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE ASSOCIATION IS ESTABLISHED ARE TO PROMOTE AND ENCOURAGE THE FOLLOWING BY CHARITABLE MEANS BUT NOT OTHERWISE: (A) EDUCATION THROUGH RESEARCH INTO THE EVOLUTION OF LANDSCAPE FROM THE PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD TO THE PRESENT DAY. (B) TO PROMOTE AND ENCOURAGE THE PROVISION OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN LANDSCAPE RESEARCH METHODOLOGY. (C) THE DISSEMINATION OF THE USEFUL RESULTS OF LANDSCAPE RESEARCH. (D) THE PROVISION OF RECREATIONAL ACCESS TO SITES OF HISTORIC OR ARCHAEOLOGICAL INTEREST WHERE THE WORK IS FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT.

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 the charity reported a net surplus of £28,553 for the year ended 31 December 2025, reversing a deficit from the previous year. Free reserves increased to £70,312, providing unrestricted funds not tied to tangible assets or designated funds. The trustees confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01852824

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.

• HAUGHTON, Christine — directornot on trustee list
• POWLESLAND, Dominic Joseph, Professor — directornot on trustee list

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• STEVE BOYLEchair
• CHRIS MUSSON MBE
• DAVID BARRY WAKELEY
• Dr Ellen McAdam · trustee of 3 other charities
• Dr PHILIP WILLIS DIXON
• Dr Robert Bewley
• Dr Simon Woodward
• Fiona Elliott · trustee of 1 other charity
• GAIL FALKINGHAM
• Nicholas John Szkiler · trustee of 2 other charities
• PROFESSOR RICHARD KEITH MORRIS OBE
• Paula Ware

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

Operates in: East Riding Of Yorkshire · Lincolnshire · North Yorkshire

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