SEAFORD MUSEUM & HERITAGE SOCIETY

Registered charity 1158790 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The maintenance of a public museum for the exhibition of historical and other exhibits relating to Seaford. its environs and its inhabitants. The organising of meetings relating to the history of Seaford. The study and maintenance of documentary information relating to Seaford so as to provide a local archive for research.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO SHALL BE:(1) GENERALLY, TO INFORM AND EDUCATE THE PUBLIC IN THE HISTORY AND HERITAGE OF THE TOWN OF SEAFORD, (IN THE COUNTY OF EAST SUSSEX), AND ITS ENVIRONS AND TO SEEK TO PROMOTE A GREATER UNDERSTANDING OF THE SOCIAL HISTORY AND BACKGROUND OF THE TOWN AMONGST ITS INHABITANTS AND VISITORS;(2) IN PARTICULAR, (A) TO USE ITS BEST ENDEAVOURS TO ESTABLISH AND MAINTAIN A PUBLIC MUSEUM FOR THE EXHIBITION OF HISTORICAL AND OTHER EXHIBITS RELATING TO SEAFORD, ITS ENVIRONS AND ITS INHABITANTS, PAST AND PRESENT, AND FROM TIME TO TIME, TO ADD TO THIS COLLECTION ITEMS OF A SIMILAR NATURE WHICH ILLUSTRATE AND RECORD THE HISTORY OF THE TOWN AND ITS PEOPLE; (B) TO ARRANGE, BY ITSELF OR WITH OTHERS, THE PROVISION OF EXHIBITIONS, LECTURES, CLASSES AND SIMILAR EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL ACTIVITIES; (C) TO WORK COLLABORATIVELY WITH ANY INDIVIDUAL, BODY OR ORGANISATION, INCLUDING CHARITIES AND PUBLIC AUTHORITIES WHICH SHARE OR SUPPORT THE OBJECTS OF THE SOCIETY, AND WHERE IT FALLS WITHIN THE POWERS OF THE SOCIETY TO ASSIST WITH THE SHARING OF EXPENSES FOR SUCH COLLABORATIVE WORK; (D) TO RAISE FUNDS AND RECEIVE MATERIAL SUPPORT IN KIND; TO SOLICIT AND RECEIVE CONTRIBUTIONS FROM ANY PERSON OR RECOGNISED ORGANISATION OR COMPANY; TO SELL OR MAKE OTHERWISE AVAILABLE TO SOCIETY MEMBERS AND OTHERS ITEMS WHICH ARE COINCIDENTAL TO THE OBJECTS OF THE SOCIETY.

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 maintained sufficient monetary assets of £61,900 to cover running costs and contingencies, exceeding its stated policy target of £40,000. Despite a net decrease in resources for the year due to closure-related income loss and high fuel bills, the trustees confirmed the charity has adequate resources to continue its operations.

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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (24/06/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Barry Malcolm Leigh
• Bernadette Mary Hollman
• Charles Andrew Grimble
• Elizabeth Marie Finlay
• GAIL ROSEMARY ARMSTRONG
• JUDITH CONSTANCE MARR
• Julian Richard Purkis
• Lynn Christine Lawson
• Vivien Patricia Haggis

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

Operates in: East Sussex

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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