USK RURAL LIFE MUSEUM

Registered charity 1165560 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Charity operates a museum situated in the town of Usk and open to the public, with the aim of collecting, preserving and making available for research and education, artifacts and documents related to rural life in Monmouthshire.

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLICI) PRIMARILY, BY THE COMPREHENSIVE REPRESENTATION OF SCIENCE, INDUSTRY, HISTORY ANDCULTURE OF, OR RELEVANT TO, THE HISTORIC COUNTY OF MONMOUTHSHIRE, ANDII) GENERALLY, BY THE COLLECTION, RECORDING, PRESERVATION, ELUCIDATION ANDPRESENTATION OF OBJECTS, DOCUMENTS AND OTHER THINGS AND ASSOCIATED KNOWLEDGE,CONNECTED WITH RURAL LIFE IN THE HISTORIC COUNTY OF MONMOUTHSHIRE, WHICH AREANTICIPATED TO FURTHER THE ENHANCEMENT OF UNDERSTANDING AND THE PROMOTION OFRESEARCH.

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 the charity reported a net surplus of £5,576 for the year ended 31 December 2024, an increase from £3,203 in the prior year. Total reserves increased to £191,758, comprising £123,690 in unrestricted funds and £68,068 in restricted funds. The financial statements were prepared as micro-entities and were not audited.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 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.

• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Usk Rural Life Museum (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £25k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (26/10/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• DAVID JOHN WHISTANCEchair
• DAVID WYNDHAM MORGAN · trustee of 1 other charity
• David Long
• GERRY HAWKINS · trustee of 2 other charities
• JAN STRAKER FRANCIS
• RITA CHRISTINE EDWARDS · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Monmouthshire

Income and spending

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