STROUD DISTRICT (COWLE) MUSEUM

Registered charity 1156849 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as The Cowle Trust

Provision and maintenance of a museum for public exhibition of a collection of objects and specimens of antiquity, natural history, art, archaeology or science and the extension, advancement, conservation and maintenance of the objects and specimens in the said collection.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE:A) THE PROVISION IN THE MUSEUM-IN-THE-PARK, STRATFORD PARK, STROUD, GLOUCESTERSHIRE OR IN ANY OTHER SUITABLE PREMISES TO BE PROVIDED BY THE TRUSTEES OF THE STROUD DISTRICT (COWLE) MUSEUM, FOR THE EXHIBITION TO THE PUBLIC OF A COLLECTION OF OBJECTS AND SPECIMENS OF ANTIQUITY, NATURAL HISTORY, ART, ARCHAEOLOGY OR SCIENCE (INCLUDING PICTURES, BOOKS AND DOCUMENTS OF EDUCATIONAL OR SCIENTIFIC INTEREST); AND,B) THE EXTENSION, ENHANCEMENT, CONSERVATION AND MAINTENANCE OF THE OBJECTS AND SPECIMENS COMPRISED IN THE SAID COLLECTION.

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: Stroud, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds total unrestricted reserves of £578,547, comprising £385,332 in investments and £222,430 in cash, against current liabilities of £29,215. The trustees report no concerns regarding the financial health of the trust and confirm the accounts are prepared on a going concern basis. The charity relies on donations, investment interest, and operational funding from Stroud District Council.

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
• 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
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Funders the charity credits

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

• The Cowle Trust — “The Cowle Trust and making a donation” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title 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.

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (09/12/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (21/10/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (03/12/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANDREW JAMES BLUETTchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Amanda Jane Lowery
• Arthur Penn
• CAMILLA HALE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dareth Guthrie
• Helen Jeffrey
• Shannon Wood Newton

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

Operates in: Gloucestershire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SLOUGH MUSEUM.

• SLOUGH MUSEUM income £29k
• SHEFFIELD MUSEUMS TRUST income £5.5m
• BRISTOL MUSEUMS DEVELOPMENT TRUST income £276k
• DEVIZES ASSIZE COURT TRUST income £59k
• THE FROME MUSEUM income £45k
• VERWOOD MUSEUM TRUST income £60k

Side by side with its peers

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