FORNCETT INDUSTRIAL STEAM MUSEUM

Registered charity 1179705 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

museum open to public for their education.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN ALL ASPECTS OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF GREAT BRITAIN'S INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE THROUGH THE PROVISION AND MAINTENANCE OF A MUSEUM AND BY THE PRESERVATION,MAINTENANCE AND DEMONSTRATION OF ITS COLLECTIONS OF STEAM POWERED ENGINES FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION TO THE 21ST CENTURY. THE COLLECTIONS ARE TO BE PRESERVED FOR LONG TERM PUBLIC BENEFIT.

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 holds unrestricted reserves of £516,374, which is above its stated policy target of holding no more than one year’s operating costs. The charity reports a net incoming resource surplus of £3,932 for the year and has no paid staff, relying entirely on volunteers. There are no disclosed material uncertainties or going concern issues.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 4 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
• 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

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

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Trustees · trustee networks

• Miranda Lucy Ellis-Marchantchair
• DANIEL ANTHONY MARSHALL-BULL
• David James Baker
• Dr ROWAN FRANCIS MBBS FRCA
• MARCUS HOWES
• Neal John Davis JP · trustee of 1 other charity
• TARYN EVERDEEN
• Tom Forster
• myles paul Jeeves
• myles paul Jeeves

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

Operates in: Norfolk

Income and spending

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