NORTH CRAVEN BUILDING PRESERVATION TRUST

Registered charity 505438 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SETTLE AND DISTRICT CIVIC SOCIETY BUILDING PRESERVATION TRUST LIMITED

We operate in the North Craven area of Yorkshire where we (a) Preserve built heritage which is of particular beauty or historical, architectural or constructional interest; and(b) Acquire, preserve, document, interpret and make accessible exhibits, objects and collections relating to the social, agricultural, industrial and built environment through the provision of a museum service

Objects

TO PRESERVE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE TOWNSPEOPLE OF NORTH CRAVEN IN THE COUNTY OF NORTH YORKS AND OF THE NATION AT LARGE,WHATEVER OF THE ENGLISH HISTORICAL ARCHITECTURAL AND CONSTRUCTIONAL HERITAGE MAY EXIST IN AND AROUND NORTH CRAVEN AFORESAID.

Area of benefit: NORTH CRAVEN IN THE COUNTY OF NORTH YOKSHIRE AND NATIONALLY

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

Causes: Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the Trust reported a surplus of £113,280 for the year ended 31 March 2026, with total income of £595,199 against total expenditure of £481,919. Per the trustees' report, free reserves were held above the minimum policy target of £55,000, although they remained below the wider policy target of six months' unrestricted expenditure plus two months' trading subsidiary expenditure. The trustees consider the Trust to be a going concern with adequate resources for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Champion Accountants LLP. 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
• 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
• 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)

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

Property (HM Land Registry)

4 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (3 freehold); recorded price paid £745k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~1.9 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (44% 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: 37.5% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Caroline Rosier · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Clare Imogen Littlejohn
• Emily Rose Coulthard
• Gerald Philip Benn
• Heather Elizabeth Lane
• Helen Rosemary Noble
• Lynn Northrop
• Philippa Doran
• Richard Greenhalgh
• Simon Charles Whitaker · trustee of 1 other charity
• Simon Myers
• Steven Paul Garland · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: North Yorkshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with YORK CONSERVATION TRUST LIMITED.

• YORK CONSERVATION TRUST LIMITED income £4.4m
• HERTFORDSHIRE BUILDING PRESERVATION TRUST LTD income £144k
• NORWICH PRESERVATION TRUST LIMITED income £119k
• COUNTRY BUILDINGS PROTECTION TRUST LIMITED income £100k
• RICHMONDSHIRE BUILDING PRESERVATION TRUST LTD income £2.2m
• NORFOLK HISTORIC BUILDINGS TRUST income £157k

Side by side with its peers

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