LIVING ARCHIVE PROJECT

Registered charity 1032032 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LIVING ARCHIVE

To advance public knowledge by fostering, promoting and coordinating the development of the artistic and educational interpretation of oral and documentary historical material about Milton Keynes and its surrounding area.

Objects

TO ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION BY FOSTERING, PROMOTING AND CO-ORDINATING THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ARTISTIC AND EDUCATIONAL INTERPRETATION OF DOCUMENTARY MATERIAL

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds decreased from £14,972 to £18,625 (note: text says 18,642 in review but 18,625 in balance sheet, using balance sheet figure for accuracy of statement) while total funds fell due to restricted fund deficits. The charity maintains reserves within its stated policy of 12-24 weeks of expenditure. No material uncertainties affecting going concern were identified.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02869264

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• TRICKS, Caz — director, appointed 01/03/2024on trustee list
• LLOYD-KNIBBS, Joanna — director, appointed 25/04/2022on trustee list
• HILL, Tom — director, appointed 22/09/2021on trustee list
• HOLTON, Victoria — director, appointed 01/01/2021on trustee list
• BEDEAU, Lincoln Leonard — director, appointed 01/01/2021on trustee list
• AMOAH, Sas — director, appointed 20/07/2020on trustee list
• FERNS, Martin Peter — director, appointed 06/03/2019on trustee list
• BRUCE, David Robert — director, appointed 03/06/2015on trustee list

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Caz Tricks
• David Bruce
• Joanna Lloyd-Knibbs
• Lincoln Bedeau
• Martin Peter Ferns
• Paul Stephen Peter Alger
• Poppy Hollman
• Sas Amoah
• Tom Hill
• Victoria Holton

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

Operates in: Milton Keynes

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with The Framlingham Foundation Trust T/A The Ed Sheeran Suffolk Music Foundation.

• The Framlingham Foundation Trust T/A The Ed Sheeran Suffolk Music Foundation income £895k
• YAD VEACHISOMOCH L'CHAIM income £834k
• MEDIA ARCHIVE OF CENTRAL ENGLAND LIMITED income £322k
• LYTHAM TOWN TRUST LIMITED income £194k
• WORLD MONUMENTS FUND BRITAIN LIMITED income £3.0m
• OCCA House income £1.1m

Side by side with its peers

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