Great Yarmouth Preservation Trust

Analysis

Great Yarmouth Preservation Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Norfolk. It was registered in July 1980, 46 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training and environment/conservation/heritage, which this site groups under environment and conservation. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 01492613). It says it provides buildings/facilities/open space.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Great Yarmouth Preservation Trust reported income of £486k and spending of £531k, spending 109% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £612k to £486k (-21%), an average of -5.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income dropped by 35%. Over the whole period it spent 95% of the income it received.

Among 4,574 England and Wales charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Great Yarmouth Preservation Trust sits at the 90th percentile: it is larger than about 90% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 90th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Moseley Railway Trust (£485k), Mineralogical Society of the United Kingdom and Ireland (£487k) and Cuerden Valley Park Trust (£483k).