THE VIKINGS

Registered charity 1062495 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Increasing public understanding of Dark Age Britain through reenactment activities, school visits and museum work

Objects

TO ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION IN THE LIFE AND TIMES OF VIKING AGE BRITAIN THROUGH THE PERFORMANCE OF RE-ENACTMENT AND LIVING HISTORY DISPLAYS, DEMONSTRATING AND TEACHING THE CRAFTS AND SKILLS OF THE PERIOD, TEACHING IN SCHOOLS, AND PROVIDING EDUCATIONAL PACKS

Area of benefit: NATIONAL

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 the charity reported a net loss of £4,246 for the year ended 31 January 2025, with total turnover of £51,005 against administrative expenses of £28,321. Per the trustees' report, current assets including the bank balance stood at £118,452, and the charity maintains a reserves policy to keep £25,000 available for operational needs.

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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (05/04/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Catherine Minette Murphychair
• CHRISTINE LINES
• Chelsea Amber Carr Russell
• Evelyn Paul Bushell
• Gareth Evans
• John Allan Ishmael Gendall
• Jonathan Michael Finch
• Jonathan Richard Wolsey
• Julie Bailey
• Maiken Lykke Bagley
• Marie Elizabeth Houghton
• ROBERT CLEGG
• SANDRA ELIZABETH ORCHARD
• STEVEN LINES

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE VINDOLANDA TRUST.

• THE VINDOLANDA TRUST income £2.9m
• VIVACITY income £558k
• THE OLD VIC THEATRE TRUST 2000 income £25.5m
• VETERAN GAMES AND CONFERENCE income £183k
• THE BANNER OF TRUTH TRUST income £2.4m
• BRITISH ASSOCIATION OF DERMATOLOGISTS income £7.5m

Side by side with its peers

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