BAMPTON COMMUNITY ARCHIVE

Registered charity 1097295 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BAMPTON COMMUNITY ARCHIVE AND LOCAL STUDIES CENTRE, THE BAMPTON MUSEUM AND HISTORY SOCIETY

Community exhibitions and collection of material for the history archive

Objects

TO PROMOTE AND ENCOURAGE FOR THE PUBLIC EDUCATION AND BENEFIT, THE COLLECTION, PRESERVATION, STORAGE AND DISPLAY OF PHOTOGRAPHIC, WRITTEN AND OTHER ARCHIVAL MATERIAL RELATING TO THE SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE PARISH OF BAMPTON, OXFORDSHIRE.

Area of benefit: PARISH OF BAMPTON, OXFORDSHIRE

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

Latest income

£82k

Latest spending

£64k

Registered

2003

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a surplus of £17,545, increasing its unrestricted reserves to £58,481. The independent examiner reported no matters requiring attention, indicating that accounting records and accounts complied with statutory requirements.

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

What the accounts disclose

Largest income source: none

“Sales in the Vesey Room and Online in the year totalled £71,383.” — page 2

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Trading subsidiary: Bampton Archive Trading Ltd

“The Charity has set up a limited company, Bampton Archive Trading Ltd (company number 08853943), to sell products to generate additional revenue for the Charity.” — page 1

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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.

Conflicting interests
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Internal risk management policy and procedures
Investing charity funds policy and procedures
Investment
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Volunteer management

Corporate structure

Trading subsidiary: BAMPTON ARCHIVE TRADING LIMITED Companies House 08853943

BAMPTON ARCHIVE TRADING LIMITED — per its own Companies House accounts

Trustees · trustee networks

Jennifer Leonarda Dixon-Cleggchair
JO LEWINGTON
Nicholas John Newland
ROBIN SHUCKBURGH

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

Operates in: Oxfordshire

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/03/2025	£82k	£64k
31/03/2024	£76k	£62k
31/03/2023	£59k	£105k
31/03/2022	£162k	£211k
31/03/2021	£5k	£9k

Common questions

Is BAMPTON COMMUNITY ARCHIVE financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a surplus of £17,545, increasing its unrestricted reserves to £58,481. The independent examiner reported no matters requiring attention, indicating that accounting records and accounts complied with statutory requirements. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	01/03/2005	£793	"Bampton Museum And History Society In Oxon Has Been Awarded A Grant To Enable Them To Host A World War Two Exhibition. The Content Will Incl"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	25/02/2005	£4k	"This Charity Collects And Preserves Artefacts And Materials Relating To The Social History Of Bampton. An Awards For All Grant Will Be Used"
The National Lottery Community Fund	24/02/2005	£5k	The Impace of WW2 on the Village of Bampton
The National Lottery Community Fund	18/02/2005	£4k	Museum feasibilty study
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	14/08/2002	£2k	"This New Society Promotes And Encourages The Collection, Preservation, Storage And Display Of Archival Material Relating To Bampton. The Pr"