The Oral History Society

We run training programmes in oral history techniques, run a website, publish a journal, run a regional network, offer advice, run an annual conference, act as a focal point for oral history and deal with ethical issues, archiving and technical developments for dissemination.

In the charity's own words, from the register.

Elsewhere

• Throughout England and Wales
• Scotland
• Northern Ireland

Area of benefit in its governing document: Not Defined

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 December 2025, it had income of £72,983 and spent £62,232.

Figures as the charity reported them to the Charity Commission. Staff and volunteer numbers are only asked of charities with income over £10,000. A year with no row was not reported.

Separate measures from the charity's own returns and accounts, each with its year. Read them together: no single measure says how well a charity is run.

Income over time

Up 48%, from £49,247 in the year to 31 December 2021 to £72,983 in the year to 31 December 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 85% of its income in the year to 31 December 2025. It spent less than its income in each of the 5 years shown.

From the annual returns the charity filed with the Charity Commission. The largest funder comes from its accounts, read by AI.

Government grants in the year ending 31 December 2025: Not reported. Government contracts: Not reported.

From the charity's annual return to the Charity Commission, which asks every charity with income over £10,000 how much came from government grants and contracts. It does not say which part of government. These totals are separate from the named funders read from its accounts and the grants published on 360Giving, and are not added to them.

No grants to this charity appear in 360Giving data.

Only funders that publish their grants to 360Giving are included, and many do not. These are amounts funders awarded, which can differ from what the charity received in a given year, so they are shown apart from the accounts figures above.

20 trustees run the charity.

• Professor John Gabriel BA PhDChairAppointed 15 July 2017
• Adam BellAppointed 24 June 2026
• Beth Thomas
• Cathlin Anne MacaulayAppointed 24 June 2026
• Cynthia Brown
• Dr Alan John ButlerAppointed 10 July 2021
• Dr Amy Tooth MurphyAppointed 15 July 2016
• Dr Cai Morgan Parry JonesAppointed 1 January 2018
• Dr CRAIG TRUMAN FEES
• Dr Juanita Anne CoxAppointed 9 July 2022
• Dr Michelle WinslowAppointed 24 June 2026
• Dr Rob Perks
• Dr ROBERT B PERKS MBE DLittAppointed 3 May 1986
• Jenny Harding PhD MSC
• Juliana Dempsey

Of the last 5 annual returns that were due, 5 arrived by the deadline.

Charities with income over £10,000 send an annual return within 10 months of their year end, and those over £25,000 also send their accounts. Smaller charities only update their income and spending on the register. The dates are when the Commission received each document.

Charity number

288805

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

5 March 1984

Governing document

CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 29/10/1983AS AMENDED ON 06/07/2007AS AMENDED ON 19/07/2014AS AMENDED ON 15 JUL 2017

Website

ohs.org.ukAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Powys

• Register details, income, spending, trustees and filing dates: Charity Commission for England and Wales, register of charities. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there, as loaded by OpenEconomy.

• This charity on the Charity Commission register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

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