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Heritage Charities

Discover 6,576 Heritage charities. Use the search below to filter within these results.

6,576
Charities
£5,185,607,911
Total Income
£591,424
Avg Income
92.6%
Program Ratio

Major UK charities curated by Charity Finder for size, recognition, and registry coverage. Click through for full profiles, financials, and trustees.

Georgian Theatre (richmond) Trust LTD

Arts, Heritage

The management of the Georgian Theatre and Georgian Theatre Experience, Richmond, North Yorkshire

Latest Income: £543,912
Areas of Operation: North Yorkshire
Status: Registered
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The Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society Limited

Arts, Heritage, Research

The principal activities of the charity are to educate and encourage the public in all aspects of the Arts Sciences Crafts and History with particular reference to the County of Cornwall.

Latest Income: £543,790
Areas of Operation: Cornwall
Status: Registered
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Reform Club Conservation Charitable Trust

Heritage

PRESERVATION AND ENHANCEMENT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC OF THE REFORM CLUB BUILDING AND THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF REASONABLE PUBLIC ACCESS TO VIEW ITS HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL FEATURES, ART COLLECTION, FURNITURE AND ARTEFACTS; AND SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT.

Latest Income: £543,651
Areas of Operation: City Of Westminster
Status: Registered
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Esteem

Heritage

ESTEEM is a charity which offers young adults aged 14-26 opportunities to develop confidence, build life-skills and improve well-being. ESTEEM has recently incorporated to become a registered Charitable Incorporated Organisation. Please refer to ESTEEM's former Registered Charity Number 1058540 for our charitable history, 1995-2020 where we operated our services as an unincorporated organisation.

Latest Income: £543,398
Areas of Operation: East Sussex
Status: Registered
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The Wells Museum

Heritage

The running of a museum relating to the town of Wells and the Mendip Hills

Latest Income: £540,425
Areas of Operation: Somerset
Status: Registered
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Guild Of St Mary's Centre Lichfield

Heritage

The charity provides and operates a visual and performing arts venue that is affordable and accessible for all. It provides a vibrant and engaging museum and Treasury display of silver together with inspirational education and arts experiences and access to SCC Local Records digitally. Several thousand photographs of local historical interest are available for public viewing.

Latest Income: £537,816
Areas of Operation: Staffordshire
Status: Registered
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Bury St Edmunds Women's Aid Centre Limited

Beneficiary group, Health, Heritage, Housing, Social welfare

We provide support and accommodation for people affected by Domestic Abuse. We offer temporary accommodation in a safe and supportive refuge where women and their children can recover from the traumatic effects of Domestic Abuse and make informed choices. We also offer a range of community services, courses and counselling to support women to rebuild their lives after abuse.

Latest Income: £536,000
Areas of Operation: Suffolk
Status: Registered
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Teach For Tomorrow

Beneficiary group, Heritage

Our purpose is to create a better world - one classroom at a time. We believe in the power and potential of educators to inspire and transform the lives of young people by unlocking new levels of understanding, awareness and community mindedness so they are equipped to create a better future for everyone. We provide teacher training, classroom resources and enrichment activities.

Latest Income: £535,671
Areas of Operation: Northern Ireland
Status: Registered
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The Lakeland Trust For Natural Sciences Limited

Environment, Facilities, Heritage, Research

to stimulate interest and enthusiasm and educate the general public in zoology and other natural sciences by establishing and running one or more zoological gardens or similar scientific exhibitions to promote and carry out scientific study and research into natural history and related scientific fields, especially where such knowledge would help the conservation of species and habitats.

Latest Income: £535,547
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Collections Trust

Charitable activities, Heritage

The Collections Trust is the UK's independent organisation for cultural collections. We campaign for the public right to access and engage with collections.We do this by:-Promoting best practiceEncouraging InnovationRepresenting the interests of the sector

Latest Income: £535,092
Areas of Operation: Scotland
Status: Registered
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The Folkestone Leas Lift Company CIO

Heritage

Our intention is to restore and then maintain and operate the Leas lift for the benefit of the local community and visitors to preserve this historic water powered cliffside funicular railway and to introduce the history of the lift to the public.

Latest Income: £533,563
Areas of Operation: Kent
Status: Registered
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Harvey's Foundry Trust

Heritage

Promoting the preservation, protection, development, improvement & education for the benefit of the people of Hayle, Cornwall & the nation, the natural historical, architectural & constructional heritage, features, objects, collections and projects of historic & public interest, including buildings of particular beauty or historical, architectural or constructional interest.

Latest Income: £530,930
Areas of Operation: Cornwall
Status: Registered
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Make IT Sustainable LTD

Heritage, Leisure

Make It Sustainable is a charity that aims to fuel a creative, low-carbon, local economy through teaching, sharing and using making skills and promoting local resilience and cooperation. The Old Print Works is a reinvented historic building providing bespoke, versatile and fun spaces for work and leisure in the heart of Balsall Heath, giving endless reasons to meet, learn, collaborate and grow.

Latest Income: £529,573
Areas of Operation: Birmingham City
Status: Registered
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Royal Asiatic Society Of Great Britain And Ireland

Arts, Education, Heritage, Research

The investigation and encouragement of science, literature and the arts in relation to Asia. The Society promotes a number of activities in this field: lectures, research workshops and student events. It publishes works of scholarship and a journal. It maintains an important library including prints, drawings and manuscripts relating to the history, religions, languages, art and customs of Asia.

Latest Income: £528,077
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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The Florence Nightingale Museum Trust

Heritage

To establish and maintain a museum for the preservation and wider display of the Florence Nightingale collection.

Latest Income: £527,797
Areas of Operation: Lambeth
Status: Registered
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Intelligence Corps Association

Heritage

To promote the well-being & efficiency of the Intelligence Corps by fostering esprit de corps and maintaining contact between past and present members. To educate in the role, history, traditions and ethos of the Corps. To provide relief to qualifying beneficiaries. To commemorate and remember those members, or former members, who have lost their lives or suffered injury in service to the public.

Latest Income: £527,602
Areas of Operation: Northern Ireland
Status: Registered
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Hay Castle Trust

Heritage

The Company's objects are to preserve the heritage of Hay Castle in Hay-on-Wye and to advance educationon the architecture of the building, local history and the arts by the purchase and preservation of the buildingand its surrounding land.

Latest Income: £526,039
Areas of Operation: Herefordshire
Status: Registered
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The London Welsh Centre Trust

Arts, Heritage, Research

To provide an educational and cultural centre in or near London to promote the knowledge and use of the welsh language, through educational means; and promote culture and education (e.g. literature, art, music, history, science) particularly relating to Wales and the Welsh people, but not exclusively, for the benefit of the public.

Latest Income: £526,032
Areas of Operation: London
Status: Registered
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Bournemouth War Memorial Homes

Beneficiary group, Heritage, Housing

The charity operates as a landlord letting its own flats and bungalows to ex service men and women and their families

Latest Income: £525,785
Areas of Operation: Bournemouth
Status: Registered
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Adel War Memorial Association

Facilities, Heritage, Leisure

Sport / recreation. General public / mankind. Provide buildings / facilities / open space.

Latest Income: £520,910
Areas of Operation: Leeds City
Status: Registered
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The Fusiliers Museum And Learning Centre Limited

Heritage

The provision of museum facilities for the collections of the Lancashire Fusiliers and the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers and to provide access for people of all ages, background and level of ability to these collections for their enjoyment, education and research, whilst ensuring that the collections are appropriately safeguarded.

Latest Income: £520,900
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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The Long Shop Museum

Charitable activities, Heritage

To provide for the benefit and education of the public a museum on the site of the former Richard Garrett Town Works exhibiting Leiston's engineering and social heritage as well as conserving its historic buildings and related collections.

Latest Income: £519,462
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Cfydc (chance)

Beneficiary group, Heritage, Leisure

CFYDC (Chance) aims to engage and actively assist in the development of young people 5-18 and adults, so they are able to reach their fullest potential. This will be by providing the facilities, resources and staffing for a range of educational, training and sports activities which enable there aspirations and dreams to be fulfilled; whatever their background and regardless of their history.

Latest Income: £519,360
Areas of Operation: Leeds City
Status: Registered
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Avoncroft Museum Of Historic Buildings

Heritage

Avoncroft is a museum of historic buildings rescued from imminent destruction and carefully rebuilt on an open-air site near Bromsgrove in the north of Worcestershire. Our principal aim isTo inspire enthusiasm for and understanding of the history of building as illustrated at Avoncroft, and the relationship of people with the buildings they constructed and in which they lived and worked.

Latest Income: £518,668
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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The Harley Foundation

Arts, Heritage

The running of an art gallery and associated activities.

Latest Income: £517,913
Areas of Operation: Nottinghamshire
Status: Registered
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Frequently asked questions about this sector

How many heritage charities are there in the UK?

There are 6,576 registered heritage charities on the Charity Commission for England and Wales register at the most recent refresh.

Which is the largest of the heritage charities by income?

Wellcome Trust is the largest by latest reported annual income (£569.5m). Notable peers are listed on this page; the full ranking is available by sorting the results by highest income.

What is the combined annual income of heritage charities?

Heritage charities reported a combined annual income of £5.2bn across their most recent filings with the Charity Commission.

What is a typical program ratio for heritage charities?

Across all heritage charities, the aggregate program ratio (charitable expenditure as a share of income) is 92.6%. Individual charity ratios vary widely — see each profile for a sector-band benchmark.

What is the average annual income of heritage charities?

Heritage charities have an average annual income of £591k. The distribution is heavily skewed: a small number of large charities account for most sector income, while the majority report under £100k a year.

Where does this data come from?

All figures are sourced from the Charity Commission for England and Wales public register, refreshed weekly. Derived metrics (program ratio, efficiency) are calculated by Charity Finder using the formulas documented on the data sources page.