At a Glance
- Tasks: Oversee financial administration and reporting for an educational charity focused on urban heritage.
- Company: Historic Towns Trust, a passionate team dedicated to preserving urban history through innovative mapping.
- Benefits: Engage with leading academics, attend exciting events, and contribute to meaningful community projects.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on urban education and heritage while shaping the future of the Trust.
- Qualifications: Experienced accountant with a passion for maps, urban history, and education.
The Historic Towns Trust is an educational charity that focuses on inspiring future generations to understand, appreciate and preserve their urban heritage.
The Trust works in partnership with local historians, geographers and archaeologists to publish historical maps and atlases that give everyone a sense of belonging and custodianship.
Our unique multi‑layer mapping techniques reveal a new way to visualise the complex development of Britain’s towns, enabling us to better analyse the impact of events and communities over time.
We use our research to develop teaching materials for schools and to engage the public with free talks, empowering them with the knowledge and confidence to influence future decisions about their built environments.
Among our Trustees we have some of the leading academics in the fields of urban history and archaeology, architects, and business people, who share a passion for maps and history.
While the organisation has no central office and Trustees are spread across Britain, we meet frequently, usually but not exclusively in London.
The Trust has expanded significantly in recent years, increasing the number of maps and atlases we produce and developing educational and community outreach programmes to increase the impact of each map for the town it serves.
The number and value of transactions we undertake (raising funds for projects, selling maps, taking on our first employee) has grown considerably and we are seeking a new Trustee to fill the role of Treasurer, helping us to re‑sh ape the organisation for the future.
The Treasurer will sit on ESC and will be responsible for the financial administration of the Trust and its reporting obligations to HMRC and the Charities Commission.
They will report to the Board on the financial position of the Trust on a quarterly basis, and lead deliberations on major investments.
They will lead the audit.
As a Trustee they will have the opportunity to be engaged in our atlas and map activities, attending events and launches and contributing in any other way to the development of the Trust.
We are looking for an experienced, preferably qualified, accountant who has a passion for cartography, for urban history and for education.
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