SAFFRON WALDEN MUSEUM SOCIETY LIMITED

Registered charity 1123209 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To promote the study and extend the knowledge of natural history and human history in all their branches.To further these aims by carrying on the museum at Saffron Walden(founded in 1834) and arranging lectures, demonstrations and other activities from time to time, both within the museum and elsewhere.

Objects

1) TO PROMOTE THE STUDY AND EXTEND THE KNOWLEDGE OF NATURAL HISTORY AND HUMAN HISTORY IN ALL THEIR BRANCHES2) TO FURTHER THESE AIMS BY CARRYING ON THE MUSEUM AT SAFFRON WALDEN (FOUNDED IN 1834) AND ARRANGING LECTURES, DEMONSTRATIONS AND OTHER ACTIVITIES FROM TIME TO TIME, BOTH WITHIN THE MUSEUM AND ELSEWHERE.

Area of benefit: SAFFRON WALDEN AND ELSEWHERE

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 holds unrestricted reserves of £52,959, which the trustees consider sufficient to meet their policy target of maintaining cash equivalent to five years of unrestricted expenditure. The filing notes that the state of the Company’s affairs is satisfactory, supported by a substantial recent donation and stable investment values, with no material uncertainties identified regarding its ability to continue as a going concern.

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
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06469141 · Financial health read from its filings

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• TURNBULL, Martin Stuart — director, appointed 05/12/2025on trustee list
• HEAD, Malcolm — director, appointed 06/10/2025on trustee list
• SUTTON, Margaret Mary Teresa — director, appointed 25/07/2023on trustee list
• KENT, Douglas David — director, appointed 22/10/2021on trustee list
• EDEN, Keith Leslie — director, appointed 24/08/2018on trustee list
• PRIESTLEY, Richard John — director, appointed 01/02/2012on trustee list
• SALVIDGE, Paul Sidney — director, appointed 08/08/2008on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Keith Leslie Edenchair
• Councillor Margaret Mary Teresa Sutton
• Douglas David Kent · trustee of 1 other charity
• MR E ANTHONY WATSON
• Malcolm Head
• Martin Stuart Turnbull
• PAUL SIDNEY SALVIDGE
• RICHARD JOHN PRIESTLEY

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

Operates in: Essex

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WILTSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY.

• WILTSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY income £637k
• SAFFRON WALDEN NURSERY SCHOOL income £380k
• SAFFRON WALDEN COMMUNITY CINEMA LIMITED income £298k
• KING'S OWN ROYAL BORDER REGIMENT MUSEUM FUND income £218k
• THE LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON income £2.6m
• WEALD AND DOWNLAND OPEN AIR MUSEUM LIMITED income £3.4m

Side by side with its peers

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