THE FROME MUSEUM

Registered charity 1091103 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Museum storing, displaying and interpreting material including documents of public interest relating to Frome and the surrounding area.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN FROME IN THE COUNTY OF SOMERSET AND ITS SURROUNDING NEIGHBOURHOOD AND IN THE NATION AT LARGE BY THE PROVISION OF A MUSEUM AND LIBRARY.

Area of benefit: THE PUBLIC IN FROME IN THE COUNTY OF SOMERSET AND ITS SURROUNDING NEIGHBOURHOOD AND IN THE NATION AT LARGE

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 · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Somerset, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity operates entirely on a volunteer basis with no paid staff or staff costs. Unrestricted reserves stood at £91,624 against total assets of £168,828, while the charity reported a net outgoing resource position for the year.

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 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
• 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
• 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

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (21/03/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• MICHAEL NORMAN MAGGSchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Alan Martin Abraham · trustee of 1 other charity
• Angela Mary Pater · trustee of 1 other charity
• BRIAN JOHN MARSHALL · trustee of 1 other charity
• Caroline Jane Waldron · trustee of 1 other charity
• Christine Margaret De Groot · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Robert George Heath · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Somerset

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with STROUD DISTRICT (COWLE) MUSEUM.

• STROUD DISTRICT (COWLE) MUSEUM income £42k
• THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS OF THE FLEET AIR ARM MUSEUM income £25k
• FORNCETT INDUSTRIAL STEAM MUSEUM income £28k
• HASLEMERE EDUCATIONAL MUSEUM income £282k
• FAIR FROME income £195k
• THE MUSEUM OF RICHMOND income £151k

Side by side with its peers

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