Bury St Edmunds Heritage Trust

Analysis

Bury St Edmunds Heritage Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Bury St. Edmunds. It was registered in May 2007, 19 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, arts/culture/heritage/science, environment/conservation/heritage and economic/community development/employment, which this site groups under arts, culture, heritage and science. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 06037742). It says it provides human resources, provides buildings/facilities/open space and sponsors or undertakes research.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Bury St Edmunds Heritage Trust reported income of £107k and spending of £100k, spending 93% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £73k to £107k (+46%), an average of +10% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 32%. Over the whole period it spent 122% of the income it received.

Among 17,634 England and Wales charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Bury St Edmunds Heritage Trust sits at the 80th percentile: it is larger than about 80% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 72nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Southwold Museum & Historical Society (£107k), Purbeck Art Weeks Festival (£107k) and The Alexandra Wylie Tower Foundation (£107k).