LEICESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY

Registered charity 1195000 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Promotion of Lectures, publications etc on the history and archaeology of Leicestershire & Rutland

Objects

THE OBJECT OF THE CIO IS TO PROMOTE THE STUDY OF HISTORY, ARCHAEOLOGY, ANTIQUITIES AND ARCHITECTURE OF THE COUNTIES OF LEICESTERSHIRE AND RUTLAND AND TO FURNISH SUGGESTIONS FOR THE PRESERVATION OF ALL REMAINS CONSIDERED TO BE OF VALUE AND IMPORTANCE.

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's financial position is sound, with total unrestricted funds of £1,113,571 as of 30 April 2025. The trustees report that cash at bank amounts to approximately two years of income or expenditure, and the investment portfolio generated a gross income of £41,187 in the current year. The charity has no staff and pays no remuneration to trustees, relying on voluntary service.

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 policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/04/2023)

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (97% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (09/05/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (02/05/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (15/09/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Deirdre O'Sullivan
• Helen Louise Sharp
• Matthew Gillespie Beamish
• Professor Elizabeth Caroline Tingle · trustee of 2 other charities
• Robin Patrick Jenkins
• Wendy Scott · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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