GILBERT WHITE & THE OATES COLLECTIONS

Registered charity 1159058 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as GILBERT WHITE & THE OATES COLLECTIONS LIMITED

Museum and Field Study Centre operating as a charity organisation

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC BY THE MAINTENANCE OF A MUSEUM AND LIBRARY.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net income of £28,787 for the year ended 31st March 2025, following a net expenditure of £143,668 in the previous year. Total incoming resources were £551,015, while total resources expended amounted to £522,228. The filing does not disclose specific unrestricted reserves figures or a reserves policy target.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 2 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

Funders the charity credits

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

• Adrian Swire Trust — “They include: Adrian Swire Trust” (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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~41.9 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (53% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 7.4% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (05/09/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Clive Anthony Parritt
• Dominic Edward Jones
• ELIZABETH MARGARET WALLACE · trustee of 1 other charity
• MARK PATTERSON · trustee of 2 other charities
• PAUL CLUETT
• PROFESSOR KHALID AZIZ · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rupert Nabarro OBE
• Sian MacLeod OBE
• Stephanie Holt
• Yinnon Ezra MBE

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

Operates in: Hampshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with GILBERT TRUST FOR THE ARTS.

• GILBERT TRUST FOR THE ARTS income £1.1m
• THE OITIJ-JO COLLECTIVE income £154k
• THE WHITAKER ORGANISATION income £384k
• THE GILBERT AND GEORGE CENTRE income £129k
• THE FRIENDS OF OXFORD BOTANIC GARDEN & ARBORETUM income £242k
• UK NATIONAL PARKS CHARITY FOUNDATION income £193k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.