DERBYSHIRE HISTORIC BUILDINGS TRUST

Registered charity 503983 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Environment/Conservation/Heritage the benefit of the general public. Reviewing list of architecturally or historically significant buildings which are at risk of deterioration or decay in order to, whether directly or in co-operation with owners or other agencies, such solution that will eliminate such risk. Seeking out other buildings for inclusion on such lists.

Objects

TO PRESERVE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PEOPLE OF THE COUNTY OF DERBY AND OF THE NATION AT LARGE, WHATEVER OF THE ENGLISH HISTORICAL, ARCHITECTURAL AND CONSTRUCTIONALD HERITAGE MAY EXIST IN AND AROUND THE COUNTY OF DERBY AFORE-SAID IN THE FORM OF BUILDINGS OF PARTICULAR BEAUTY OF HISTORICAL, ARCHITECTURAL OR CONSTRUCTIONAL INTEREST, OR ANCIENT MONUMENTS AND TO PROMOTE AND FURTHER THE STUDY OF THE SAID HISTORICAL, ARCHITECTURAL AND CONSTRUCTIONAL HERITAGE AND TO MAKE THE INFORMATION OBTAINED AVAILABLE TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC.

Area of benefit: DERBYSHIRE

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 £354,818 to £309,315 due to net outgoing resources of £55,503. The trustees consider the present level of reserves sufficient to enable the trust to activate and research new projects prior to receipt of grants. The charity relies on grant income as its major source of funding, with significant projects funded by the National Heritage Lottery.

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.

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
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

Property (HM Land Registry)

5 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (3 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2023)

Reported reserves equal ~4.7 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 7.1 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (96% 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 (3.0%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (24/08/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ALLAN BAXTER MORRISON
• BARRY RICHARD JOYCE MBE
• Dan Greenway
• Dr Ian Webster
• Elisabeth Claire Stoppard
• OLIVER BOSTOCK GERRISH
• PETER HERBERT MILNER · trustee of 1 other charity
• Richard Wood

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

Operates in: Derbyshire

Income and spending

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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 LONDON HISTORIC BUILDINGS TRUST LTD.

• LONDON HISTORIC BUILDINGS TRUST LTD income £116k
• WORLD MONUMENTS FUND BRITAIN LIMITED income £3.0m
• RICHMONDSHIRE BUILDING PRESERVATION TRUST LTD income £2.2m
• THE LANDMARK TRUST income £20.0m
• SLT BUILDING PRESERVATION TRUST LIMITED income £122k
• TYNE AND WEAR BUILDING PRESERVATION TRUST LIMITED income £1.1m

Side by side with its peers

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