SHARPE'S POTTERY HERITAGE AND ARTS TRUST LIMITED

Registered charity 1077086 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SHARPES POTTERY MUSEUM

Provide museum collections open to the public.Provide a base for local community groupsProvide opportunities for volunteeringProvide opportunities for people to research local history

Objects

The principle object of the Company is to advance the education of the public in all matters relating to the arts, crafts, cultural and industrial heritage of South Derbyshire for the benefit of the community, clients and stakeholders in particular but not exclusively, by the provision of a Museum, Pottery, Heritage & Arts Centre.

Area of benefit: SOUTH DERBYSHIRE

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · 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 reported a net expenditure of £5,626 for the year, resulting in total funds decreasing from £448,160 to £442,534. The trustees acknowledge the financial position but confirm the preparation of accounts on a going concern basis, noting that systems are in place to mitigate major risks. The charity holds unrestricted funds of £395,689 against current liabilities of £42,688, though it reports a net current asset deficit of £25,380.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Amos Accountancy Limited. 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events 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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• 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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03820001 · Financial health read from its filings

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• GOODWIN, Julie May Theresa — director, appointed 01/10/2025on trustee list
• HAYWOOD, Richard John — director, appointed 01/10/2025on trustee list
• MULDOON, Anthony James — director, appointed 01/10/2025on trustee list
• TUNNICLIFFE, Peter William — director, appointed 03/11/2022on trustee list
• HAMPTON, Christine — director, appointed 04/08/2022on trustee list
• BEECH, Christopher James — director, appointed 20/05/2019on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Peter William Tunnicliffechair
• Anthony James Muldoon
• Christine Hampton
• Christopher James Beech
• Julie Goodwin
• MARTIN JOHN WROUGHTON · trustee of 1 other charity
• Richard Haywood

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

Operates in: Derbyshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with PEAK DISTRICT MINES HISTORICAL SOCIETY LIMITED.

• PEAK DISTRICT MINES HISTORICAL SOCIETY LIMITED income £197k
• YAD VEACHISOMOCH L'CHAIM income £834k
• LITTLE PARC OWLES TRUST income £103k
• Culture& Arts and Heritage income £523k
• THE MUSEUMS ASSOCIATION income £2.2m
• SHAFTESBURY ARTS CENTRE income £287k

Side by side with its peers

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