Cultura Trust

Registered charity 513055 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NORTH EAST CIVIC TRUST, NORTH OF ENGLAND CIVIC TRUST, NORTHERN HERITAGE TRUST LIMITED · also registered in Scotland as SC050330 (OSCR)

operating primarily throughout Yorkshire, Cumbria, the North East of England and Scotland but also nationally as a building preservation trust and an impartial advisory body offering guidance to those interested in the enhancement and protection of the historic environment in both rural and urban areas, providing training and education in traditional building and engineering heritage skills.

Objects

THE TRUST IS ESTABLISHED FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT FOR THE FOLLOWING PURPOSES;1) TO PROMOTE THE HIGH STANDARDS OF PLANNING AND ARCHITECTURE IN OR AFFECTING THE AREA OF BENEFIT; 2) TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC IN THE GEOGRAPHY,HISTORY,NATURAL HISTORY AND ARCHITECTURE OF THE AREA OF BENEFIT; 3)TO SECURE THE PRESERVATION,DEVELOPMENT AND IMPROVEMENT OF BUILDINGS(INCLUDING ANY BUILDING AS DEFINED IN SECTION 290(1) OF THE TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1971) AND OTHER FEATURES OF HISTORIC ARCHITECTURAL OR PUBLIC INTEREST IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT.

Area of benefit: THE AREA COMPRISING THE COUNTIES OF CUMBRIA, DURHAM, NOTHUMBERLAND, NORTH YORKSHIRE, TEES VALLEY AND TYNE AND WEAR (THE NORTHERN REGIONS) AND ELSEWHERE AS THE DIRECTORS MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE PROVIDED THAT THE DIRECTORS SHALL REGARD THE NORTHERN REGIONS AS THEIR PRIMARY CONCERN

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 · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a net expenditure of £114,638, resulting in a decrease in total funds. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted free reserves stood at £125,000, which is above the stated policy minimum of £20,000, and the trustees concluded the entity is a going concern based on forecasts of future project-related income.

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.

• 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
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 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.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (31/01/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Deborah Mary Jenkinschair
• BARRY NEIL SPEKER OBE DL · trustee of 3 other charities
• TIMOTHY JOHN WHITTAKER · trustee of 1 other charity
• Torsten Haak

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with RICHMONDSHIRE BUILDING PRESERVATION TRUST LTD.

• RICHMONDSHIRE BUILDING PRESERVATION TRUST LTD income £2.2m
• NORTH CRAVEN BUILDING PRESERVATION TRUST income £1.1m
• YORK CIVIC TRUST income £500k
• CASTLEFORD HERITAGE TRUST income £247k
• YORK CONSERVATION TRUST LIMITED income £4.4m
• THE NOSTELL TRUST income £156k

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