THE TOWCESTER MUSEUM

Registered charity 1120909 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

For the benefit of the public, to apply the capital and income of the charity to educate the public at large concerning the history of Towcester and surrounding area by the provision of a local museum and Heritage centre.

Objects

BY SUCH MEANS AS ARE CHARITABLE, AND ONLY BY SUCH MEANS, AND FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, TO APPLY THE CAPITAL AND INCOME OF THE CHARITY IN THE TOWN OF TOWCESTER AND THE AREA OF SOUTH NORTHAMPTONSHIRE TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC AT LARGE CONCERNING THE HISTORY OF TOWCESTER AND THE SURROUNDING AREA BY THE PROVISION OF A LOCAL MUSEUM AND HERITAGE CENTRE

Area of benefit: TOWCESTER AND AREA OF SOUTH NORTHAMPTONSHIRE

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

Registered contact address: West Northamptonshire, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £2,851 for the period, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £110,420 to £107,569. The trustees confirm the financial statements are prepared on a going concern basis, supported by free reserves of £58,582 which exceed the stated policy target of three months of resources expended.

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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting 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, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 30/09/2023 (received 01/10/2024, 63 days after the 30/07/2024 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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Heritage Lottery Fund — “Heritage Lottery Fund” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

4 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold); recorded price paid £170k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Damian Reynoldschair
• David Leslie Ward
• Gris Iris Millis
• Innes Macaulay
• Mark Sargent
• Rachel Dando L'Olive
• SALLY WILLETT
• Victoria Litherland

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

Operates in: Northamptonshire

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE TOWCESTER COMMUNITY CENTRE TRUST.

• THE TOWCESTER COMMUNITY CENTRE TRUST income £7k
• TENBY MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY income £93k
• TOPSHAM MUSEUM income £58k
• WOODFORD WAR MEMORIAL COMMUNITY CENTRE income £125k
• WALLINGFORD MUSEUM income £31k
• THE EASTBOURNE SOCIETY income £20k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.