EAST GRINSTEAD MUSEUM

Registered charity 1171561 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Museum holds a collection of records and artefacts related to the town of East Grinstead and its surrounding villages, and to the Queen Victoria Hospital and the WW2 Guinea Pig Club, much of which is on display to the general public at its premises in East Grinstead.

Objects

TO PROVIDE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF PUBLIC EDUCATION BY THE PROVISION OF THE MUSEUM COMPRISING THE EXISTING COLLECTION TOGETHER WITH SUCH OTHER EXHIBITS OR ITEMS AS MAY FROM TIME TO TIME BE COMPRISED IN THE TRUST FUND AND TO PRESERVE THE SAME AS A COLLECTION. TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC IN THE GEOGRAPHY HISTORY AND NATURAL HISTORY OF THE AREA OF THE TOWN OF EAST GRINSTEAD AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD.

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: Mid Sussex, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state a net loss of £17,968 for the year, driven by total expenditure of £54,138 against receipts of £36,170. The charity holds unrestricted cash reserves of £91,562, which the trustees consider prudent against a policy target of six months' budgeted non-discretionary spend. The trustees anticipate a new funding bid will lead to a sustainable financial basis for the foreseeable future.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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.

• 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting 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)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 05/02/2024, 5 days after the 31/01/2024 due date); year ending 31/03/2022 (received 01/02/2023, 1 day after the 31/01/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (3 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (11/06/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Blisschair
• ANDREW NORMAN BROCK · trustee of 3 other charities
• Amy Elizabeth Stone
• Dr Heather Hollins
• Hugh Kelly
• James William Baldwin · trustee of 1 other charity
• LESTER WILLIAM MORLEY PORTER
• Lucy Buckland
• Nyssa Danae Mildwaters
• Peter Simon Smith
• Stephen Chandler
• Stephen Ody

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

Operates in: East Sussex · Surrey · 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 BRIGHTLINGSEA MUSEUM.

• BRIGHTLINGSEA MUSEUM income £29k
• Petersfield Museum and Art Gallery Limited income £341k
• GLENSIDE HOSPITAL MUSEUM income £51k
• THE FOUNDLING MUSEUM income £2.0m
• THE GUISE-MIST MEMORIAL TRUST income £26k
• THE PRIEST'S HOUSE MUSEUM TRUST income £242k

Side by side with its peers

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