THE ARMY MUSEUMS OGILBY CIO

Registered charity 1195441 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE ARMY MUSEUMS OGILBY TRUST

AMOT exists to represent, support and promote the Regimental and Corps museums of the British Army. Founded in 1954, the network includes over 140 Army museums and collections. Members can access funding, training and events. We provide specialist advice on governance, collections, audience and research, and represent Army museums to the wider heritage sector and external organisations.

Objects

3.1. THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE TO PROMOTE THE EFFICIENCY OF THE ARMY BY:3.1.1. EDUCATING THE PUBLIC AND MEMBERS OF THE ARMY BY THE PROMOTION AND FOSTERING OF REGIMENTAL AND MILITARY TRADITIONS IN THE HISTORY, AND DEEDS THEREOF IN THE FOLLOWING WAYS:BY ASSISTING IN AND ENCOURAGING THE MAINTENANCE AND IMPROVEMENT OF EXISTING REGIMENTAL AND CORPS MUSEUMS AND OTHER ARMY MUSEUMS;BY ASSISTING IN AND ENCOURAGING THE ESTABLISHMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF NEW REGIMENTAL AND CORPS MUSEUMS AND OTHER ARMY MUSEUMS;BY ACQUIRING, PRESERVING AND ASSISTING IN AND ENSURING THE CARE OF EQUIPMENT, BOOKS, PRINTS, DRAWINGS, UNIFORMS, WEAPONS AND ANY OTHER ITEMS OR ARTIFACTS CONNECTED WITH THE HISTORY OF PARTICULAR REGIMENTS OR CORPS OR OF THE ARMY GENERALLY.3.1.2. EDUCATING THE PUBLIC AND MEMBERS OF THE ARMY BY:THE PROMOTION AND FOSTERING OF REGIMENTAL AND CORPS AND OTHER MILITARY TRADITIONS;LEARNING, EDUCATION AND RESEARCH INTO MATTERS RELATING TO BRITISH MILITARY FORCES AND (INSOFAR AS IT WILL FURTHER THE PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE AND ATTAINMENTS OF MEMBERS OF THE BRITISH ARMY SERVING OR ON THE RESERVE) INTO MATTERS RELATING TO OTHER MILITARY FORCES OF ANY SOVEREIGN OR DEPENDENT STATE.

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 · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Surrey Heath, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's net assets decreased slightly to £2,477,302 due to investment market volatility, though the trustees note that markets have since recovered. The charity achieved an operating surplus of £36,693 for the year, allowing for increased grant budgets and staff capacity, while maintaining a reserves policy of six months' expenditure in cash.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Brewers Chartered Accountants. 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• 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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 4 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2022 (received 22/03/2023, 50 days after the 31/01/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: TOM COMMERCE LIMITED Companies House 13600661 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — AMOT (matched by registered charity number).

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2023)

Reported reserves equal ~0.4 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (21/11/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (01/06/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Allison Spark
• Angela Gill
• Brigadier Allan Lawrence Mallinson
• Caroline Cary
• Colin William Edward Elwell TD
• Colonel Alasdair Bruce Gray
• Dr Francesca Benetti
• Edward Sayer
• Jolyon Jackson CBE
• Keith James Durward FCA · trustee of 1 other charity
• Lt.Gen. Sir Philip Charles Cornwallis Trousdell KBE CB
• Major General Celia Jane Harvey OBE QVRM
• Paul de Zulueta

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

Operates in: Gibraltar · Guernsey · Isle Of Man · Jersey · Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with YORK ARMY MUSEUM.

• YORK ARMY MUSEUM income £166k
• THE NATIONAL ARMY MUSEUM income £9.6m
• THE NATIONAL ARMY MUSEUM DEVELOPMENT TRUST income £25k

Side by side with its peers

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