SOUTHWELL COMMUNITY ARCHAEOLOGY GROUP
HLF Burgage Project Substantially complete Report March 2018 Investigation Elizabethan wall paintings Saracens Head Southwell.Investigation land @ Vicars Court & The Orchard, part of SAM @ Church Street Southwell. HLF funding sought Curatorial work re archaeological artefacts & records Church Street SiteMajor landscape & fieldwalking project Vernacular Buildings projectTalks prog
Objects
THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC:1) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE HERITAGE AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL IMPORTANCE OF SOUTHWELL AND ITS LOCALITY (HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AS "THE AREA OF BENEFIT") BY:A) PROMOTING RESEARCH INTO THAT SUBJECT AND TO PUBLISH THE USEFUL RESULTS,B) CONDUCTING OR ASSISTING SURVEYS AND OTHER INVESTIGATIONS OF THE LOCAL ARCHAEOLOGY AND HISTORY; ANDC) SUCH OTHER MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES MAY DETERMINE.2) TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF FEATURES OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL IMPORTANCE IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT.
Policies the charity declares
- Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
- Complaints policy and procedures
- 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
From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)
Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2025
- Volunteers: 45
Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2024
- Volunteers: 47
Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2023
- Volunteers: 56
Trustees
- JOHN REGINALD LOCK JPchair
- Aoife Cleland
- DR CHRIS BROOKE
- DR WILL BOWDEN
- Dr GILLIAN HANNINGTON
- Dr Malcolm Gordon Hoare
- Dr Stephen Howard Rogers
- Julia Helen Davies
- LYN JEAN HARRIS
- PETER WILLIAM KENT
- PHILIP WILLIAM BARTON
Income and spending
| Financial year end | Income | Spending |
|---|---|---|
| 31/12/2025 | £4k | £5k |
| 31/12/2024 | £3k | £3k |
| 31/12/2023 | £4k | £3k |
| 31/12/2022 | £3k | £5k |
| 31/12/2021 | £3k | £877 |
Government & lottery funding
| Funder | Date | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| The National Lottery Heritage Fund | 15/02/2018 | £10k | "Archaeological investigation of the gardens at Vicars Court and Orchard land Church Street Southwell Notts" |
| The National Lottery Heritage Fund | 18/02/2015 | £50k | "Southwell Burgage Manor Revealed - a community archaeology project" |
| The National Lottery Heritage Fund | 18/10/2012 | £6k | "Burgage Earthworks Project – Southwell Community Archaeology Group" |