English Heritage

English Heritage is a registered charity that looks after the National Heritage Collection of more than 400 state-owned historic sites and monuments across England. It cares for and opens them to the public under a licence from Historic England that runs until 2023.

The government agreed that it would provide £80m to English Heritage if it transferred the national heritage collection to a charitable trust. This happened on 1 April 2015 when the old English Heritage separated into two parts: a charity that looks after the collections, and Historic England that champions the nation's wider heritage, running the listing system, dealing with planning matters and giving grants.