HINCKLEY AND DISTRICT MUSEUM

Registered charity 1015922 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HINCKLEY AND DISTRICT MUSEUM LIMITED, HINCKLEY MUSEUM

To advance the education of the public by the provision of a museum of the history of Hinckley and Bosworth district in Leicestershire.

Objects

To provide a museum to advance the education of the public in Hinckley and the surrounding area and to foster and encourage the conservation and better understanding of the material heritage and the environment for the public benefit.

Area of benefit: HINCKLEY AND THE SURROUNDING AREA

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds increased to £25,379, which the trustees consider adequate to cover up to six months of unrestricted annual expenditure as per their reserves policy. The charity reports a net income surplus of £10,928 for the year, though it notes that inflation and rising energy costs remain potential causes for concern regarding future financial stability.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Trustees · trustee networks

• EVELYN ANN CRABTREE MBEchair
• Amy Lester
• Bronwen Witherford
• HUGH ANDREW BEAVIN · trustee of 1 other charity
• Michael Francis Sansome
• PHILLIP GRAHAM LINDLEY
• ROBIN JEREMY BROOKS
• Thomas Trevor Phillips

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Leicestershire

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).