WHITBY LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY

Registered charity 1171266 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Owns and manages Whitby Museum in North Yorkshire, which includes a Library and Document Archive, on behalf of the people of Whitby.

Objects

TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC IN THE INTERESTS OF SCIENCE, THE HUMANITIES AND LITERATURE BY THE PROVISION OF A MUSEUM, A LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES AND BY SUCH CHARITABLE MEANS AS MAY BE PRACTICABLE.

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 FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £8,023 for the year ended 30 September 2025, following a deficit on charitable activities that was offset by investment gains. Free reserves stood at £670,451, which the trustees describe as sufficient to enable the Society to be sustainable.

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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Whitby Museum (matched by registered charity number).

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr David Rodwell-Coxchair
• Colin Clifford Pyrah OBE
• Gregory Simon Pipe
• MRS A ROBERTS · trustee of 1 other charity
• MRS R SMITH · trustee of 1 other charity
• Penny Cockill
• Robert Charles Smith
• Robert Henry Williams
• SARAH MARGARET BOOTH
• Susan Morton

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

Operates in: North Yorkshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WHITBY AREA DEVELOPMENT TRUST.

• WHITBY AREA DEVELOPMENT TRUST income £231k
• WHITLEY BAY SPORTING CLUB income £297k
• THE COOK MUSEUM TRUST income £212k
• WHITBY WILDLIFE SANCTUARY income £229k
• WHITBY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP income £143k
• THE LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE income £1.5m

Side by side with its peers

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