THE STEYNING MUSEUM TRUST

Registered charity 1169540 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

STEYNING MUSEUM TELLS THE STORY OF THE LOCALITY, THROUGH DISPLAYS AND ARCHIVES, THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. IT IS A TOTALLY VOLUNTEER MUSEUM BUT HAS ACHIEVED NATIONAL STANDARDS OF EXCELLENCE. EVERYONE WILL ENJOY THE FRIENDLINESS OF THEIR WELCOME INCLUDING CHILDREN AND RESEARCHERS. OPENING TIMES AND MORE DETAILS ARE ON OUR WEBSITE WWW.STEYNINGMUSEUM.ORG.UK

Objects

(1) TO MAINTAIN STEYNING MUSEUM FOR THE PUBLIC DISPLAY OF MATERIAL EVIDENCE WHICH ILLUSTRATES THE LOCAL HISTORY OF STEYNING AND ITS ADJACENT PARISHES (ASHHURST, BRAMBER, UPPER BEEDING, WISTON) FOR THE DELIGHT INTEREST AND TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC; (2) TO CARE FOR AND CONSERVE THE MUSEUM COLLECTION AND DEVELOP IT AS APPROPRIATE; (3) TO INTERPRET THE COLLECTION FOR THE EDUCATION OF PEOPLE OF ALL AGES AND LEVELS OF ABILITY; (4) TO PROMOTE RESEARCH TO UNDERSTAND THE COLLECTION AND THE ASSOCIATED LOCAL HISTORY AND MAKE THE RESULTS OF THE RESEARCH ACCESSIBLE.

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 · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Horsham, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved an operating surplus of £112,418 for the year, resulting in total unrestricted reserves of £443,914. The trustees report that sufficient reserves are retained in liquid funds to cover expected annual expenditure and meet contingencies. The independent examiner confirmed that no material matters came to their attention during the examination of the accounts.

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 5 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
• 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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (30/07/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• BARBARA MOIRA CHANDLER
• MURIEL WRIGHT
• NICHOLAS JOHN QUINN
• PAUL HENRY NORRIS
• RACHAEL LOUISE RAINBOW
• SUSAN DOROTHY JOHNSON

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

Operates in: West Sussex

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE GUARDS MUSEUM TRUST.

• THE GUARDS MUSEUM TRUST income £751k
• THE MUSEUM OF BREXIT income £3k
• FORNCETT INDUSTRIAL STEAM MUSEUM income £28k
• STROUD DISTRICT (COWLE) MUSEUM income £42k
• BE PREPARED - THE STORY OF SCOUTING MUSEUM TRUST income £23k
• THE STAITHES MUSEUM AND HERITAGE TRUST income £100k

Side by side with its peers

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