Charity responsible for the National Heritage Collection of England
This article is about the post-April 2015 registered charity. For the statutory body with responsibility for listing, see Historic England.
English Heritage
English Heritage's logo
Predecessor
The Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England, also known as English Heritage
Formation
1 April 2015 (2015-04-01); Preceding English Heritage government agency, formed 1983
Type
Charity
Registration no.
1140351
Headquarters
The Engine House, Swindon
Region
England
Fields
Heritage
Membership (2014/15[1][2])
1.34 million
Chairman
Gerard Lemos
Chief Executive
Dr. Nick Merriman, OBE[3]
Revenue (2014/15)
£74.5 million[1]
Expenses (2014/15)
£176.2 million[1]
Staff (2015)
2,699[1]
Volunteers (2014/15)
1,872[1]
Website
www.english-heritage.org.uk
English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a charity that manages over 400 historic monuments, buildings and places. These include prehistoric sites, medieval castles, Roman forts, and country houses.
The charity states that it uses these properties to "bring the story of England to life for over 10 million people each year". Within its portfolio are Stonehenge, Dover Castle, Tintagel Castle, and the best-preserved parts of Hadrian's Wall. English Heritage also manages the London blue plaque scheme, which links influential historical figures to particular buildings.
When originally formed in 1983, English Heritage was the operating name of an executive non-departmental public body of the British Government, officially titled the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England, that ran the national system of heritage protection and managed a range of historic properties.[4] It was created to combine the roles of existing bodies that had emerged from a long period of state involvement in heritage protection. In 1999, the organisation merged with the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England and the National Monuments Record, bringing together resources for the identification and survey of England's historic environment.
On 1 April 2015, English Heritage was divided into two parts: Historic England, which inherited the statutory and protection functions of the old organisation, and the new English Heritage Trust, a charity that would operate the historic properties, and which took on the English Heritage operating name and logo.[5][4][6] The British government gave the new charity an £80 million grant to help establish it as an independent trust, although the historic properties remain in the ownership of the state.
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^"English Heritage Annual Report and Accounts 2013/14". Historic England. Archived from the original on 13 April 2015. Retrieved 6 April 2015.
^"English Heritage: Our People". English Heritage. English Heritage Trust. Retrieved 3 March 2024.
^ ab"Our History". English Heritage Trust. Retrieved 6 April 2015.
^"New Era for English Heritage". English Heritage. English Heritage Trust. Retrieved 6 April 2015.
^Lean, Geoffrey (28 February 2015). "Does our history have a future in the hands of the English Heritage Trust?". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 12 January 2022. Retrieved 6 April 2015.
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