THE CORPORATION OF WINCHELSEA

Registered charity 1192506 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WINCHELSEA CORPORATION

Winchelsea Corporation oversees the preservation and maintenance of Winchelsea Court Hall and Medieval Town Gates, maintains and manages Winchelsea Museum, and fulfils the ceremonial functions associated with its role as an Ancient Town of the Cinque Ports Confederation.

Objects

1. TO PRESERVE THE HISTORIC TRADITIONS ASSOCIATED WITH THE ROLE OF WINCHELSEA AS AN ANCIENT TOWN OF THE CINQUE PORTS CONFEDERATION. 2. TO PROMOTE THE PRESERVATION AND MAINTENANCE OF THE HISTORIC COURT HALL AND TOWN GATES OF WINCHELSEA AND ANY OTHER LAND AND PROPERTIES THEREON IN ITS CHARGE.3. TO HOLD THE COURT HALL AND THE THREE TOWN GATES (NEW, FERRY AND STRAND) AS DESIGNATED LAND FOR THE PURPOSES OF THE CHARITY. 4. TO OVERSEE THE STATE OF THE COURT HALL, THREE TOWN GATES ENSURING THEY ARE PRESERVED FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, WORKING WITH OTHER AGENCIES TO MAINTAIN THEIR APPEARANCE. 5. TO MAINTAIN AND MANAGE A MUSEUM FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT PROVIDING A RECORD OF THE TOWN OF WINCHELSEA AND ITS PEOPLE.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the Corporation operates on a receipts and payments basis with unrestricted funds totaling £87,628 at year-end. The filing notes that reserves are vested in a bond designed to cover one year of expenditure plus capital projects, and the independent examiner confirmed the accounts were suitable for publication.

Automated summary of the FY2024 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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures

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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Peter Cosstickchair
• Alison Clare Casey · trustee of 1 other charity
• Berenice Scott
• Christopher Chappell · trustee of 1 other charity
• David Merrifield
• Ian David Kingham
• JOHN RODLEY
• John McNeil Clarke
• Jonathan Albert Murphy
• Michael Melvin
• Philip Edward Mack · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev David Page
• Stephen John King · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: East Sussex · Kent

Income and spending

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