TIVERTON MUSEUM OF MID DEVON LIFE

Registered charity 1181976 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q7810403 · Wikipedia

To provide and maintain a museum and information service at the Museum and to advance education for the public benefit and to promote the history of Tiverton and Mid Devon as told through its heritage, landscapes and stories of the people in the area.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE1)TO PROVIDE AND MAINTAIN A MUSEUM AND INFORMATION SERVICE AT THE MUSEUM OR SUCHOTHER BUILDINGS, AND IN PURSUIT OF THAT OBJECT:• TO ACQUIRE ITEMS FOR ITS COLLECTION BY GIFT, BEQUEST, PURCHASE OR EXCHANGE• TO BORROW AND LOAN ARTEFACTS AND ARCHIVES RELATING TO THE AREA;• TO MANAGE, DOCUMENT, CONSERVE AND SAFEGUARD THE MUSEUM COLLECTIONS ANDHOLDINGS;• TO EXHIBIT, INTERPRET AND PROVIDE PUBLIC ACCESS TO THE MUSEUM COLLECTIONS ANDHOLDINGS;• TO PROVIDE LEARNING EXPERIENCES AND ACTIVITIES FOR THE PUBLIC;• TO PROVIDE EXHIBITIONS, CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS, COMMUNITY SPACE AND OTHER EVENTS;• TO RESEARCH, PROMOTE AND PUBLISH STUDIES OF THE AREA;• TO PROVIDE AN INFORMATION SERVICE FOR THE PUBLIC.2)TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AND TO PROMOTE THE HISTORY OF TIVERTONAND MID DEVON AS TOLD THROUGH ITS HERITAGE, LANDSCAPES AND STORIES OF THE PEOPLE IN THEAREA;

Area of benefit: TIVERTON AND MID DEVON

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 Devon, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated an unrestricted surplus of £4,605 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total unrestricted reserves of £175,428. The trustees' report notes that while income increased significantly due to grants, expenditure also rose by 45%, and the charity faces ongoing challenges with increasing running costs. The trustees maintain a reserves policy target of £84,000 to cover six months of operating costs, which is comfortably exceeded by the current unrestricted reserves.

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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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.

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.

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (14/04/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• jose kimberchair
• Alice Paterson
• Colin Slade
• Felicity Jane Colthorpe · trustee of 3 other charities
• Georgia Petts
• Jonathan Scott
• Stephen Ponder
• Susan Eddisford

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

Operates in: Devon

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MILFORD HAVEN HERITAGE AND MARITIME MUSEUM.

• MILFORD HAVEN HERITAGE AND MARITIME MUSEUM income £63k
• THE BURTON AT BIDEFORD income £715k
• MID DEVON TOWN AND COUNTRY SHOW SOCIETY LIMITED income £408k
• THE MUSEUM OF RICHMOND income £151k
• THE HERTFORD MUSEUM CHARITY income £276k
• MUSEUM OF ARCHITECTURE income £145k

Side by side with its peers

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