FORT AMHERST HERITAGE TRUST

Registered charity 1102399 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FORT AMHERST HERITAGE PARK AND CAVERNS FORT AMHERST

To maintain, restore and preserve Fort Amherst and Lower Lines Park. To make the Fort and Lower Lines Park available as a public amenity and education facility. To provide benefit to the socially disadvantaged through training, education and work experience.

Objects

a) acquiring, restoring, maintaining, safeguarding and preserving the historical fortifications known as Fort Amherst and associated fortifications in the Borough of Medway in the County of Kent. b) To collect, care, conserve and display as appropriate, objects and documents relevant to the history of Fort Amherst, its associated fortifications and setting. c) Making the same available for research and for educational and recreational viewing and use by the public.d) Provide benefit to the socially disadvantaged through training, education and work experience associated with the objects above.

Area of benefit: MEDWAY, KENT

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 · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Medway, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity maintains a sound financial base with total funds of £5,372,788, although unrestricted funds are in deficit at £119,370. The trustees report that reserves are being managed against a prudent target of £175,000, and no material uncertainties regarding going concern have been identified.

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
• 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
• 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

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 31/03/2023 (received 23/04/2024, 83 days after the 31/01/2024 due date); year ending 31/03/2022 (received 20/03/2023, 48 days after the 31/01/2023 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 — Fort Amherst Heritage Trust (matched by registered charity number).

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.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2022)

Reported reserves equal ~6.0 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (98% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (19/04/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (21/08/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• William Joseph Fowlerchair
• DAVID MOORMAN
• EDMUND GULVIN
• GLENN ROBINSON
• Nicola Jane Moy
• Stuart Robert Bean

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

Operates in: Medway

Income and spending

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MOUNTAIN HERITAGE TRUST.

• MOUNTAIN HERITAGE TRUST income £31k
• OSWESTRY STATION BUILDING TRUST LIMITED income £337k
• THE OTTERHEAD ESTATE TRUST COMPANY LIMITED income £30k
• HARROW HERITAGE TRUST income £12k
• LOWTHER CASTLE AND GARDENS TRUST income £74k
• ARCHBISHOP'S PARK COMMUNITY TRUST income £57k

Side by side with its peers

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