HEUGH GUN BATTERY TRUST LIMITED

Registered charity 1106882 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Visitor attraction, Museum with collection, regeneration and maintenance of a Scheduled Monument. Refreshment facility, educational facility, employment and volunteering opportunity in an area of deprivation. Open to the public.

Objects

3.1 TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC BY DEVELOPING AND MAINTAINING THE HISTORIC SITE NOW KNOWN AS THE HEUGH GUN BATTERY;3.2 TO PRESERVE IT AS A SITE OF HISTORIC IMPORTANCE; 3.3 TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC THE CONSERVATION PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT BY DEVELOPING THIS HISTORIC SITE ON THE HEADLAND OF HARTLEPOOL; AND3.4 TO FURTHER SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC AS THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS SEE FIT FROM TIME TO TIME.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE, HARTLEPOOL.

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 · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £152,774 for the year, resulting in total funds decreasing from £407,444 to £254,670. Per the trustees' report, free reserves of £39,962 fall short of the stated policy target of 3 to 6 months of annual expenditure. The trustees consider the immediate future secure based on secured funding and plan to build reserves through operational surpluses.

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 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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Trustees · trustee networks

• Timothy Guy Baileychair
• Eric Harland Deer
• Gemma Ptak

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

Operates in: Hartlepool

Income and spending

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• THE GUNNERSBURY MUSEUM AND PARK DEVELOPMENT TRUST income £2.5m
• LONDON TRANSPORT MUSEUM LIMITED income £19.9m
• THE HORNIMAN PUBLIC MUSEUM AND PUBLIC PARK TRUST income £10.4m
• BRESSINGHAM STEAM PRESERVATION COMPANY LIMITED income £1.0m
• THE GUNTER CHARITABLE TRUST income £112k
• THE FITZWILLIAM WENTWORTH AMENITY TRUST income £2.1m

Side by side with its peers

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