THE CRESWELL HERITAGE TRUST

Registered charity 701683 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Promoting for the benefit of the public, the conservation and preservation of the geology, archaeology, ecology and landscape in the Creswell Crags Heritage Area and the surroundings; of taking steps to secure the removal of inappropriate development from the Creswell gorge and at other sites the Trust is seeking to enhance and preserve; to advancing public education and promote research.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the group reported a surplus of £31,032 for the year, with total unrestricted reserves standing at £163,135. However, the trustees explicitly note that the charity has held insufficient financial reserves for some time and is currently working towards rebuilding them to cover six months of operating costs. The organization is dependent on external grant funding, including a Strategic Grant from Arts Council England, to support its business recovery and financial resilience.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Bates Weston Audit Ltd. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02344235
• Trading subsidiary: CRESWELL TRADING COMPANY LIMITED Companies House 02467865

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Creswell Heritage Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• George Buchanan — Director (source)
• John Roberts — Co-Chair (source)
• Anra Kennedy — Co-Chair (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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.

• BINGHAM, Bert Kevin — director, appointed 09/04/2026not on trustee list
• WRIGHT, David James — director, appointed 17/12/2025on trustee list
• LITCHFIELD, Miranda — director, appointed 17/12/2025on trustee list
• SCULLION, Siobhan — director, appointed 17/12/2025on trustee list
• WALL, Andrew Martin — director, appointed 17/12/2025on trustee list
• REANEY, Sarah, Councillor — director, appointed 25/06/2025not on trustee list
• TAYLOR, Adam — director, appointed 25/06/2025not on trustee list
• JONES, Deborah Christine — director, appointed 26/03/2025on trustee list
• SLATER, Alexandra Jane — director, appointed 24/04/2024on trustee list
• MILTON, Peter Ralph — director, appointed 28/07/2021on trustee list
• KENNEDY, Anra — director, appointed 28/04/2021on trustee list
• ROBERTS, John Bruce — director, appointed 02/05/2018on trustee list
• KUYKENDALL, Kevin Lee — director, appointed 14/05/2013on trustee list
• TERRELL-NIELD, Christopher Eric — director, appointed 26/10/1993on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 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 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (52% 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: 29.3% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• John Robertschair
• ANRA KENNEDY
• Adam Taylor Councilor
• Alexandra Jane Slater
• Andrew Martin Wall
• Bert Bingham Councilor
• DOCTOR CHRISTOPHER ERIC TERRELL-NIELD
• David James Wright
• Deborah Christine Jones
• Dr Kevin Lee Kuykendall
• Miranda Litchfield
• Peter Milton
• Sarah Reaney Councilor
• Siobhan Scullion

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

Operates in: Barnsley · Derbyshire · Doncaster · Nottinghamshire · Rotherham · Sheffield City

Income and spending

Common questions

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 NORTH CRAVEN BUILDING PRESERVATION TRUST.

• NORTH CRAVEN BUILDING PRESERVATION TRUST income £1.1m
• YORK ARCHAEOLOGICAL TRUST FOR EXCAVATION AND RESEARCH LIMITED income £11.6m
• THE CORNWALL HERITAGE TRUST LIMITED income £1.2m
• COTSWOLD ARCHAEOLOGY LTD income £39.2m
• THE HISTORIC ENGLAND FOUNDATION income £361k
• HERITAGE CONCERN FOUNDATION income £2.7m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.