THE CASTLE HOUSE TRUST

Registered charity 1161304 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Art Museum open to the public

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY SHALL BE FOR THE PROVISION AND MAINTENANCE OF AN ARTS MUSEUM AT CASTLE HOUSE, DEDHAM, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC AND TO BE KNOWN AS THE SIR ALFRED MUNNING'S ART MUSEUM FOR THE PURPOSE OF THE PROVISION AND MAINTENANCE OF THE COLLECTION ("THE COLLECTION") OPEN TO THE PUBLIC OF THE WORKS OF ART MADE BY SIR ALFRED MUNNINGS AND, IN ADDITION, THE CONTENTS OF CASTLE HOUSE BEING CHATTELS, FURNITURE, EQUIPMENT AND INVESTMENTS TO BE USED AS THE NUCLEUS OF THE MUSEUM.

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 FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds total £2,340,863, providing a significant financial buffer. However, the trustees report a prospect of losing around one third of income upon the expiry of 'artist resale right' in 2029, noting that maintaining non-core land assets is currently more costly than the income they produce.

Automated summary of the FY2024 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• 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

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.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• Bryony Everard Maynard
• Charles Aldous KC
• Hugo Richard Lamond Parker · trustee of 1 other charity
• Lady Vanessa Petronel Watson
• Michael John Parker
• ROBERT JAMES CAMPBELL JOHNSTON · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Essex

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CASTLE PARK TRUST.

• CASTLE PARK TRUST income £164k
• PEMBROKE CASTLE TRUST income £1.5m
• ART WORKERS' GUILD TRUSTEES LTD income £442k
• SHERBORNE HOUSE TRUST 2018 income £5.6m
• SENHOUSE MUSEUM TRUST income £131k
• THE CAISTER CASTLE TRUST income £909k

Side by side with its peers

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