# AVONCROFT MUSEUM OF HISTORIC BUILDINGS

## Details

- **Country:** England & Wales
- **Charity number:** 241644
- **Other names:** AVONCROFT MUSEUM OF BUILDINGS LIMITED
- **Status:** Registered
- **Legal form:** Charitable company
- **Registered:** May 25, 1965
- **Register:** https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/?p_p_id=uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet&p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_state=maximized&p_p_mode=view&_uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet_regId=241644


## Contact

- **Address:** AVONCROFT MUSEUM, OF HISTORIC BUILDINGS, REDDITCH ROAD, STOKE HEATH, BROMSGROVE
- **Postcode:** WORCESTE
- **Phone:** 01527831363
- **Email:** contacts@avoncroft.org.uk
- **Website:** www.avoncroft.org.uk



## Activities

**Objects:** TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE HISTORY OF BUILDING AS ILLUSTRATED AT AVONCROFT AND IN THE RELATIONSHIP OF PEOPLE WITH THE BUILDINGS THEY CONSTRUCTED AND IN WHICH THEY LIVED AND WORKED

**Activities:** Avoncroft is a museum of historic buildings rescued from imminent destruction and carefully rebuilt on an open-air site near Bromsgrove in the north of Worcestershire.  Our principal aim isTo inspire enthusiasm for and understanding of the history of building as illustrated at Avoncroft, and the relationship of people with the buildings they constructed and in which they lived and worked.

**Area of benefit:** COUNTIES OF WORCESTER, WARWICK, STAFFORD, HEREFORD, SALOP.




## Classification

- **How:** Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space
- **What:** Education/training, Environment/conservation/heritage
- **Who:** Children/young People, The General Public/mankind



## Areas of operation

- Birmingham City
- Coventry City
- Dudley
- Herefordshire
- Shropshire
- Solihull
- Staffordshire
- Warwickshire
- Wolverhampton
- Worcestershire



## Finances

| Period end | Income | Expenditure | Assets | Employees |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec. 31, 2024 | £518668 | £587246 | £856417 | 23 |
| Dec. 31, 2023 | £531280 | £569829 | £924995 | 19 |
| Dec. 31, 2022 | £473535 | £537272 | — | — |
| Dec. 31, 2021 | £471986 | £435861 | — | — |
| Dec. 31, 2020 | £649418 | £398570 | £996407 | 30 |



## Trustees

- **MARK ARMSTRONG** (Chair)
- Adele Wood — appointed Nov. 21, 2021
- Edward James Kenneth Tolcher — appointed Jan. 26, 2026
- Ivan Smart — appointed July 1, 2023
- Lucy Hockley — appointed July 1, 2023
- Michael Paul Smith — appointed June 16, 2025
- SUSAN ELIZABETH POPE — appointed Nov. 22, 2021
- sarah BEAUCHAMP — appointed July 1, 2023