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.

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION BY PROMOTING, UNDERTAKING AND MAKING PUBLIC HISTORICAL RESEARCH AND ARCHEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION INTO THE LANDSCAPE OF THE PARISH OF SEDGEFORD IN THE COUNTY OF NORFOLK AND OF ADJOINING AND NEIGHBOURING PARISHES (HEREINAFTER TOGETHER REFERRED TO AS "THE RESEARCH AREA"). THE RESULTS OF THE WORK WILL DISSEMINATED BY PUBLICATIONS, EXHIBITIONS, PUBLIC LECTURES AND OTHER MEANS.

Area of benefit: NORFOLK

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

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.

Policies the charity declares

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• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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Trustees · trustee networks

• DANIEL COCKLING
• Dr ELEANOR BLAKELOCK
• Dr Lucy Koster
• EMILY ANTIGONE HARRIS
• Eleanor Lees
• GARETH JOHN DAVIES
• Joseph Harry Ogden
• OWEN CHRISTOPHER MORGAN
• Pete Taylor
• SAMANTHA KATRINA HELEN ATKINS
• STEPHEN HORN
• Terry Baxter
• Yvonne Bolton-Smith

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

Operates in: Norfolk

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• THE SHARPHAM TRUST income £2.2m
• SHREWSBURY OPPORTUNITY GROUP income £109k
• SHARROW COMMUNITY FORUM LIMITED income £3.0m
• THE SHALLOWFORD TRUST income £275k
• SHARPE'S POTTERY HERITAGE AND ARTS TRUST LIMITED income £143k
• THE SHANDFORD TRUST income £80k

Side by side with its peers

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