THE SEDGEFORD HISTORICAL AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH PROJECT

Registered charity 1064553 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SHARP, THE SEDGEFORD HISTORICAL AND ARCHAELOGICAL RESEARCH PROJECT

SHARP is a long-term, multi-period, multi-disciplinary independent research project set up to investigate the entire range of human settlement and land use in a typical north-west Norfolk parish, from the earliest times to the present day.

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Latest income
£184k
Latest spending
£161k
Registered
1997
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity received total receipts of £287,760 against total payments of £193,442 for the period, resulting in a net surplus. The trustees report that the organization has maintained its activities and infrastructure despite recent personnel changes and public scrutiny regarding its former treasurer.

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 4 of 6 completeness components.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Norfolk

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
30/09/2025£184k£161k
30/09/2024£34k£33k
01/03/2024£47k£34k
01/03/2023£65k£66k
01/03/2022£36k£29k

Common questions

Is THE SEDGEFORD HISTORICAL AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH PROJECT financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity received total receipts of £287,760 against total payments of £193,442 for the period, resulting in a net surplus. The trustees report that the organization has maintained its activities and infrastructure despite recent personnel changes and public scrutiny regarding its former treasurer. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Heritage Fund29/04/2021£10k"SHARPening Our Tools to Open 'Digital Trenches'"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund18/12/2018£31k"Volunteering with a Disarticulated Community: Towards re-association of Anglo-Saxon Bones"

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Charities like this

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

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
THE SEDGEFORD HISTORICAL AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH PROJECT£184k0unclearno doubt
THE SHARPHAM TRUST FY2025£2.2maboveno doubt
SHREWSBURY OPPORTUNITY GROUP FY2025£109k0unclearno doubt
SHARROW COMMUNITY FORUM LIMITED FY2024£3.0m0unclearno doubt
THE SHALLOWFORD TRUST FY2025£275k0unclearno doubt
SHARPE'S POTTERY HERITAGE AND ARTS TRUST LIMITED FY2025£143k0unclearno doubt

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