TENTERDEN AND DISTRICT MUSEUM ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1195539 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Local history and heritage museum in Tenterden

Objects

TO MAINTAIN A MUSEUM FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC.

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

Latest income

£26k

Latest spending

£15k

Registered

2021

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred an overall deficit of £2,832.49 for the year ended 31 December 2025. Per the balance sheet, the charity held total current assets (cash) of £43,697.05, providing a net asset position that exceeds its liabilities.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 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
Complaints policy and procedures
Conflicting interests
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Social media 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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2025

Volunteers: 30

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2024

Volunteers: 35
Government income: £680 — grants £680 (2); 2% of the £27,877 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2023

Volunteers: 30
Government income: £1,000 — grants £1,000 (1); 3% of the £31,957 total gross income on the same return

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

Register events

Received assets from another charity (29/04/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

Cathy Lee Dalton
David Robinson
Deborah Joan Greaves MBE
Naomi Dickins
Peter George Foster
Peter Michael Hill
Roy Alan Francis

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

Operates in: Kent

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2025	£26k	£15k
31/12/2024	£28k	£28k
31/12/2023	£32k	£32k
31/12/2022	£44k	£35k

Common questions

Is TENTERDEN AND DISTRICT MUSEUM ASSOCIATION financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity incurred an overall deficit of £2,832.49 for the year ended 31 December 2025. Per the balance sheet, the charity held total current assets (cash) of £43,697.05, providing a net asset position that exceeds its liabilities.

Government & lottery funding

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

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	22/06/2004	£18k	"A Presentation of Local History to a 21st Century Audience"

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT MUSEUMS	2	£9k
NATIONAL ART COLLECTIONS FUND	1	£1k
THE PROVINCIAL GRAND LODGE OF DEVONSHIRE BENEVOLENT FUND	1	£1k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with DEAN HERITAGE MUSEUM TRUST.

DEAN HERITAGE MUSEUM TRUST income £572k
THE HALESWORTH AND DISTRICT MUSEUM income £39k
THORNBURY AND DISTRICT HERITAGE TRUST income £25k
THE MALVERN MUSEUM SOCIETY LIMITED income £26k
TOPSHAM MUSEUM income £58k
THE MUSICAL MUSEUM income £186k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
TENTERDEN AND DISTRICT MUSEUM ASSOCIATION	£26k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
DEAN HERITAGE MUSEUM TRUST FY2025	£572k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
THE HALESWORTH AND DISTRICT MUSEUM FY2026	£39k	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THORNBURY AND DISTRICT HERITAGE TRUST FY2025	£25k	—	0	unclear	—	noted
THE MALVERN MUSEUM SOCIETY LIMITED FY2025	£26k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
TOPSHAM MUSEUM FY2025	£58k	—	0	unclear	—	noted

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