EAST SOMERSET SOCIETY OF MODEL AND EXPERIMENTAL ENGINEERS (LTD)

Registered charity 1122635 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ESSMEE

Design, building and upkeep of the railway's infrastructure. Construction and maintenance of various locomotive types and rolling stock. Educational talks for members. Education and training of young people in the building and running the railway. Public running days for members of the public. Open Weekends for members of other model engineering societies.

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF PUBLIC EDUCATION THROUGH THE CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATION OF MODELS OF ENGINEERING IN PARTICULAR THROUGH PROVISION OF TALKS, PUBLIC EXHIBITIONS, DEMONSTRATIONS AND FACILITIES FOR CONSTRUCTION, DEVELOPMENT AND RUNNING ENGINEERING MODELS.

Area of benefit: SOMERSET

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net surplus of £2,330 for the year, with total income of £27,063 against expenditure of £24,733. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £34,662, which exceeds the stated policy target of three months' operating costs. The independent examiner confirmed no material matters required attention in the examination of the accounts.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alan Leslie Hutfield · trustee of 1 other charity
• Gavin James Lang
• George White
• Graham Hayman
• Kevin John Grimes
• Simon Neath
• Stuart Graham Bond

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

Operates in: Somerset

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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