THE SECOND WORLD WAR EXPERIENCE CENTRE

Registered charity 1072965 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SECOND WORLD WAR EXPERIENCE CENTRE

The collection & preservation of testaments of those who lived through the second world war and the disemination thereof for educational & general research purposes.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC AND IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT SO AS TO LIMIT THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING TO PROMOTE THE ADVANCEMENT OF PUBLIC EDUCATION IN THE STUDY OF AND RESEARCH INTO WAR IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY WITH THE MAIN EMPHASIS ON THE SECOND WORLD WAR INCLUDING THE ANGLO-AMERICAN RELATIONSHIP AND THE PARALLEL DOMINION, COLONIAL AND EUROPEAN EXPERIENCES, ESPECIALLY BY THE RESCUE THROUGH COLLECTION AND INTERVIEW OF THE EVIDENCE OF INDIVIDUAL EXPERIENCE AND THE DISSEMINATION OF THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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 FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £852 for the year ended 31 December 2024, with unrestricted income funds of £52,347. The trustees consider the current financial position to be satisfactory and confirmed that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

Automated summary of the FY2024 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 policy and procedures
• 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
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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Trustees · trustee networks

• KELVIN BELL · trustee of 1 other charity
• ROBERT ARTHUR FLEMING · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

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Government & lottery funding

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