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CASTLE HOWARD ARBORETUM TRUST

Company no. 03006258 · PRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of 'Limited' exemption)
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CASTLE HOWARD ARBORETUM TRUST is an active 31-year-old company, with accounts filed and up to date and no outstanding charges or mortgages registered. No adverse signals found on the public record.

Risk indicatorsNo adverse signals found
Active on the Companies House register
Accounts filed and up to date
No outstanding charges or mortgages registered
Established — 31+ years on the register

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Company details
Established 10+ years
StatusActive
Company number03006258
TypePRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of 'Limited' exemption)
Incorporated5 Jan 1995 · 31 yrs
Registered officeThe Estate Office, Castle Howard, York, YO60 7DA
Nature of business91040 - Botanical and zoological gardens and nature reserves activities
Next accounts due31 Oct 2026
Confirmation statement due18 Jan 2027

Contact

Contact from the Charity Commission (official public register).

Charity Commission

Charity number
1044931
Charity status
Registered
Registered charity since
13 Mar 1995
Charity type
Charitable company
Latest income
£590,289 · year to 31 Jan 2025
Latest expenditure
£523,455

What CASTLE HOWARD ARBORETUM TRUST does

To maintain and extend plant collections, make them available to the public, ensure scientific integrity of records and develop educational and information services

Charitable objects and activities as declared by the charity to the Charity Commission for England and Wales.

Charity income & expenditure

Financial year endingIncomeExpenditureNet
31 Jan 2025 £590,289 £523,455 £66,834
31 Jan 2024 £535,913 £515,463 £20,450
31 Jan 2023 £280,386 £429,222 −£148,836
31 Jan 2022 £426,359 £362,743 £63,616
31 Jan 2021 £675,721 £360,623 £315,098

Figures as filed in the charity's annual returns to the Charity Commission — last 5 reported years. Net is income less expenditure; a negative figure means the charity spent more than it received that year.

Trustees (9)

GREVILLE THOMAS WORTHINGTONChair
Trustee · appointed 1 Dec 2020
Dr Helen Crews
Trustee · appointed 19 May 2016
Ian Graham
Trustee · appointed 3 Oct 2022
Julia Willison
Trustee · appointed 31 Jan 2022
Professor Nicola Spence
Trustee · appointed 1 Apr 2014
Raoul Patrick Paul Curtis-Machin
Trustee · appointed 8 Oct 2025
THE HONOURABLE NICHOLAS PAUL GEOFFREY HOWARD
Trustee
Victoria Howard
Trustee · appointed 25 Feb 2016
William John Wood
Trustee · appointed 24 Apr 2024

Trustees as recorded on the Charity Commission register. For a charitable company the trustees are normally also its Companies House directors, so this list and the Directors & officers list below should broadly agree — a large discrepancy is worth asking about.

Filed accounts — year to 31 Jan 2025

FigureAmount
Turnover £590,289
Gross profit £66,834
Operating profit £66,834
Profit before tax £70,912
Fixed assets £1,400,823
Current assets £405,532
Cash at bank £319,104
Debtors £86,428
Creditors £40,824
Net current assets £364,708
Total assets less current liabilities £1,765,531
Net assets £1,753,295
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Figures taken directly from the accounts CASTLE HOWARD ARBORETUM TRUST filed at Companies House for the financial year ending 31 Jan 2025, read from the machine-readable (iXBRL) tags in the filing itself. Smaller companies may file abridged accounts, so not every figure above will be present for every business. Always check the full filing before relying on these numbers.

Directors & officers

CREWS, Helen Mary
Director · appointed 19 May 2016 · British
CURTIS-MACHIN, Raoul Patrick Paul
Director · appointed 8 Oct 2025 · British
GRAHAM, Ian Alexander, Professor
Director · appointed 3 Oct 2022 · British
HOWARD, Nicholas Paul Geoffrey, The Hon.
Director · appointed 5 Jan 1995 · British
HOWARD, Victoria
Director · appointed 25 Feb 2016 · British
SPENCE, Nicola, Professor
Director · appointed 15 May 2013 · British
WILLISON, Julia Ruth
Director · appointed 31 Jan 2022 · British
WOOD, William John
Director · appointed 24 Apr 2024 · British
WORTHINGTON, Greville Thomas
Director · appointed 1 Dec 2020 · British

Ownership & control (PSC)

Miss Julia Mary Barker
Individual person with significant control · significant influence or control as trust
Filing status
AccountsUp to date
Last accounts made up to31 Jan 2025
Next accounts due31 Oct 2026
Confirmation statementUp to date
Last statement4 Jan 2026
Next statement due18 Jan 2027
Accounts typeSmall company

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