SOUTHWOLD MUSEUM & HISTORICAL SOCIETY

Registered charity 1159790 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN LOCAL HISTORYTHE PROVISION, MAINTENANCE AND ADMINISTRATION OF A MUSEUM IN BUILDINGS LOCATED ON A SITE AT 9 -11 VICTORIA STREET, SOUTHWOLD, SUFFOLK IP18 6HZ FOR THE RECEPTION AND DISPLAY OF OBJECTS OF ANTIQUITY, CURIOSITY, RARITY OR LOCAL INTEREST.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE SOCIETY ARE:3.1 TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN LOCAL HISTORY, ARCHAEOLOGY AND NATURAL HISTORY WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO SOUTHWOLD AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD, IN PARTICULAR BY PROVIDING LECTURES, EDUCATIONAL TRIPS AND BY PROMOTING RESEARCH IN THE FIELDS DESCRIBED AND TO PUBLISH THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH.3.2 THE PROVISION, MAINTENANCE AND ADMINISTRATION OF A MUSEUM (HEREINAFTER “THE MUSEUM”) IN BUILDINGS LOCATED ON A SITE AT 9 -11 VICTORIA STREET, SOUTHWOLD, SUFFOLK IP18 6HZ FOR THE RECEPTION AND DISPLAY OF OBJECTS OF ANTIQUITY, CURIOSITY, RARITY OR LOCAL INTEREST.

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 · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds total £380,000, invested in COIF funds, with a surplus of £3,498 for the year. The trustees report the society is in good financial shape, though they note the urgent need for expensive roof repairs and declining membership.

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 4 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
• 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
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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).

• Heritage Lottery Fund — “Southwold Museum underwent a major structural refit in 2006-2008, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund” (source page)

Trustees · trustee networks

• John Richard Nickell-Lean TDchair
• Andrew Wallington-Smith
• Barbara Badrick
• Catherine Elizabeth Fox
• Catherine Mary Schling
• David Euan Murdoch
• Josephine Diana Flunder
• Miriam Wells
• Professor Lawrence Neil Goldman
• Richard Mallett
• STEPHEN WELLS · trustee of 2 other charities
• Simon Piers Loftus

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

Operates in: Suffolk

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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• SOLE BAY ARTS C.I.O. income £243k
• THE SUSSEX ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY income £1.6m
• THE SALISBURY AND SOUTH WILTSHIRE MUSEUM TRUST income £1.8m
• SAFFRON WALDEN MUSEUM SOCIETY LIMITED income £136k
• THE SOUTH WEST HERITAGE TRUST income £5.2m
• THE SUFFOLK HISTORIC CHURCHES TRUST income £276k

Side by side with its peers

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