DOWNHAM MARKET & DISTRICT HERITAGE SOCIETY

Registered charity 1154267 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Downham Market & District Heritage Society collects,preserves and displays artefacts, documents and photographs relating to Downham Market and the surrounding villages. These items have mostly been donated by local residents and the Society operates from a free admission Heritage Centre. The Society attends outside events and has a regular programme of Talks.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE HISTORICAL HERITAGE OF DOWNHAM MARKET AND ITS SURROUNDING VILLAGES THAT MAKE UP THE ANCIENT ADMINISTRATIVE AREA OF THE CLACKCLOSE HUNDRED, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY:A) COLLECTING AND PRESERVING ARTEFACTS AND DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE AREA;B) PROVIDING AN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE; ANDC) COLLECTING AND PUBLISHING ASSOCIATED INFORMATION.

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 remains financially healthy and meets its objectives, with unrestricted reserves of £240,827. However, the trustees note that £160,271 of the total reserves is designated for property improvements and is not available as usable funds, leaving actual available reserves at £81,776. The charity maintains a reserves policy target of three to six months' expenditure, which the trustees consider to be maintained throughout the year.

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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• 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

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Peter Laing
• Diane Drewry
• Janet Patch
• Maria Hopwood
• Sally Dobson
• Terry Cox
• Zowie Sweetland

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

Operates in: Norfolk

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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