POSTAL HERITAGE TRUST
Activities
As described by the charity on the register
Educational Charity working to make the Royal Mail Archive and the Postal Heritage Trust collection accessible as widely as possible
Latest income
£6.3m
Expenditure
£6.6m
Financial year end
2025-03-31
Income & spending history
As reported to the Charity Commission, by financial year end
| Year end | Income | Expenditure | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-12-31 | £4.7m | £5.0m | |
| 2021-12-31 | £4.2m | £5.0m | |
| 2023-03-31 | £5.2m | £7.0m | |
| 2024-03-31 | £5.0m | £6.2m | |
| 2025-03-31 | £6.3m | £6.6m |
Latest detailed return
Year end 2025-03-31 · consolidated (group) figures
Income mix
| Donations & legacies | £2.8m |
| Charitable activities | £1.8m |
| Trading | £1.6m |
| Investment income | £19k |
| Total income | £6.3m |
Spending
| Charitable spend | £4.0m |
| Raising funds | £2.5m |
| Grants to institutions | £0 |
| Governance | £111k |
| Total expenditure | £6.6m |
Balance sheet
| Reserves | £295k |
| Total funds | £12.7m |
| — restricted | £864k |
| — unrestricted | £11.8m |
| — endowment | £0 |
| Total assets | £12.7m |
| Cash | £2.3m |
People
| Employees | 97 |
Classification
The charity's own register classification
What it does
- General Charitable Purposes
- Education/training
- Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Environment/conservation/heritage
Who it helps
- The General Public/mankind
How it works
- Provides Human Resources
- Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space
- Provides Services
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
Source: Charity Commission for England and Wales register, 2026-07-28. Detailed figures as filed in the charity's annual return. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.