WALFORD MILL EDUCATION TRUST LIMITED

Registered charity 1049540 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Walford Mill provides the focus for encouraging, promoting and maintaining the highest standards of contemporary art & craft work in the region. It aims to encourage audience awareness through a programme of exhibitions and participation for all ages in a complementary education programme including lectures, seminars and practical workshops.

Objects

TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN, IMPROVE AND ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TRAINING PARTICULARLY IN THE ARTS AND CRAFTS

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 financial constraints have prevented the charity from employing a Chief Executive, with duties divided among trustees. The charity relies on grant funding, such as from Dorset Council, to support its education programmes and staff.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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 03107540

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.

• COATES, Maxwell Gordon, Dr — director, appointed 04/12/2024on trustee list
• HINTON, Jeanette Elizabeth — director, appointed 06/12/2023on trustee list
• ALLEN, Katharine Ann — director, appointed 23/10/2019on trustee list
• WHEELER, Terence Frederick — director, appointed 03/11/2014on trustee list

Official officers record.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Trustees · trustee networks

• TERENCE FREDERICK WHEELERchair
• Dr Maxwell Gordon Coates
• Jeanette Hinton
• Katharine Ann Allen

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

Operates in: Dorset

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with PARNDON MILL.

• PARNDON MILL income £209k
• THE TOWN MILL TRUST LYME REGIS income £244k
• WATERMILL THEATRE LIMITED income £4.4m
• WALES MILLENNIUM CENTRE income £28.1m
• BALTIC FLOUR MILLS VISUAL ARTS TRUST income £6.8m
• Waldorf Learning Foundation Limited income £135k

Side by side with its peers

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