THE PRIEST'S HOUSE MUSEUM TRUST

Registered charity 1068540 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Museum saves, cares for and uses local heritage artefacts to tell the story of the people of East Dorset. The Museum offers an extensive learning programme with family activities and children's events regularly organised throughout the year. A regular temporary exhibition programme shares local stories and history. The Priest's House Museum Trust trades as the Museum of East Dorset.

Objects

4.1.1 TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN ARCHAEOLOGY, ETHNOLOGY, SOCIAL HISTORY, NATURAL HISTORY AND KINDRED SCIENCES, PAINTING AND ARTS AND CRAFTS, ESPECIALLY IN RELATION TO THE TOWN AND DISTRICT OF WIMBORNE MINSTER AND THE TOWNS AND VILLAGES OF EAST DORSET, AS TOLD THROUGH THEIR HERITAGE, LANDSCAPES AND PEOPLE.4.1.2 TO PROVIDE AND MAINTAIN A MUSEUM AND INFORMATION SERVICE AT THE PROPERTY KNOWN AS THE PRIEST?S HOUSE IN WIMBORNE MINSTER OR OTHER SUCH BUILDINGS.

Area of benefit: WIMBORNE MINSTER AND THE COUNTY OF DORSET

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: Dorset, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £167,102 for the year, resulting in a decrease in free reserves to £66,735. The trustees note that this reduction is due to a difficult economic climate and a reduction in grant income, while expenditure on charitable activities remained high at £389,504. Despite the deficit, the trustees confirm the charity has sufficient working capital to continue as a going concern for the foreseeable future.

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

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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• 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

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, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2022 (received 04/02/2023, 4 days after the 31/01/2023 due date); year ending 31/03/2021 (received 18/03/2022, 46 days after the 31/01/2022 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Priest's House Museum Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £528k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2021)

Reported reserves equal ~27.9 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other (71% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 6.0% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• David Morgan · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jeremy Francis Mills
• Jonathan Charles Greenwood
• Sara Louise Marshall
• Sarah Newman
• Susan Anne Cook
• Susan Anne Revill
• VANESSA ANNE JOSEPH · trustee of 1 other charity

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 THE PRIEST'S HOUSE MUSEUM COLLECTIONS TRUST.

• THE PRIEST'S HOUSE MUSEUM COLLECTIONS TRUST income £86k
• WESSEX MUSEUMS TRUST income £488k
• VERWOOD MUSEUM TRUST income £60k
• THE WEST HOUSE AND HEATH ROBINSON MUSEUM TRUST income £221k
• DORSET ARCHIVES TRUST income £55k
• CONGLETON MUSEUM TRUST income £30k

Side by side with its peers

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