BOMBER COUNTY GATEWAY TRUST

Registered charity 1178696 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To advance art and education and promote good citizenship for the public benefit by the creation, erection and maintenance of a sculpture of an Avro Lancaster bomber close to the boundary of Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE TRUST ARE TO ADVANCE ART AND EDUCATION AND PROMOTE GOOD CITIZENSHIP FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY THE CREATION, ERECTION AND MAINTENANCE OF A SCULPTURE OF AN AVRO LANCASTER BOMBER IN PROXIMITY TO THE A46 CLOSE TO THE BOUNDARY OF LINCOLNSHIRE AND NOTTINGHAMSHIRE AND, IF THE TRUSTEES CONSIDER APPROPRIATE, THE PROVISION AND MAINTENANCE OF SUCH OTHER ITEMS AND/OR ARTEFACTS AND/OR SERVICES AND/OR EVENTS AS ARE CAPABLE OF FURTHERING THESE OBJECTS.

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 held total net assets of £390,161 at the year end, representing an increase from the prior year's £264,454. The trustees confirmed the charity is a going concern, noting that additional funds received after the year-end ensured a material creditor invoice was paid in full. The charity operates a single project with no disclosed reserves policy or trading subsidiaries.

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 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.

• Conflicting interests
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (02/07/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• CHARLES WHITEchair
• ADRIAN LONGMATE
• Sophie White

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

Operates in: Lincolnshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LINCOLNSHIRE BOMBER COMMAND MEMORIAL.

• LINCOLNSHIRE BOMBER COMMAND MEMORIAL income £1.7m
• THE SOLWAY AVIATION SOCIETY LIMITED income £115k
• CITIZENS ADVICE LINCOLNSHIRE income £314k
• THE B17 CHARITABLE TRUST income £146k
• GRIMSTHORPE AND DRUMMOND CASTLE TRUST LIMITED income £4.3m
• THE BOMB FACTORY ART FOUNDATION income £658k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.