THE JUDGE'S LODGING TRUST LIMITED

Registered charity 1062215 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as PRESTEIGNE SHIRE HALL MUSEUM TRUST, THE JUDGES LODGING, THE PRESTEIGNE SHIRE HALL MUSEUM TRUST LIMITED

The charity operates The Judge's Lodging Museum, a restored Victorian courthouse and accommodation for visiting judges. It also houses a substantial local history collection. It exists to interpret and preserve these, actively collects related objects and has a range of educational services, displays and events to support them. It also runs the town's Tourist Information Centre.

Objects

TO PROMOTE AND DEVELOP FOR THE EDUCATION AND BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC A MUSEUM ATTRACTION ESTABLISHED WITHIN THE BUILDINGS KNOWN AS THE SHIRE HALL, PRESTEIGNE, POWYS.

Area of benefit: POWYS

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

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Powys, Wales (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a loss of £1,930 for the year, with unrestricted reserves declining to £21,509. The trustees note that the financial position has declined rapidly despite previous support, and the situation will remain challenging until new income streams from holiday lets come fully on stream.

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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 29/03/2024, 58 days after the 31/01/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03266526

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — THE JUDGE'S LODGING TRUST (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• THORNTON, Sue — director, appointed 19/08/2024on trustee list
• HODGETTS, Timothy Stenson — director, appointed 31/01/2022on trustee list
• FELGATE, Colin Michael — director, appointed 28/09/2021on trustee list
• GWILT, Diane Rosemary — director, appointed 13/06/2016on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• Colin Michael Felgate
• DIANE ROSEMARY GWILT
• Sue Thornton
• Timothy Stenson Hodgetts

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

Operates in: Powys

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with NARBERTH MUSEUM LIMITED.

• NARBERTH MUSEUM LIMITED income £100k
• CONGLETON MUSEUM TRUST income £30k
• DEVIZES ASSIZE COURT TRUST income £59k
• THE PRIEST'S HOUSE MUSEUM TRUST income £242k
• THE PEMBROKE DOCK HERITAGE TRUST LIMITED income £96k
• THE LODGE TRUST CIO income £2.4m

Side by side with its peers

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