SADDLEWORTH HISTORICAL SOCIETY

Registered charity 1195706 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To promote an interest in the history of Saddleworth; facilitate research into and document its history; maintain a publicly accessible archive and library relating to the history of Saddleworth.

Objects

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, TO ADVANCE EDUCATION, INCLUDING INCREASING INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING, IN THE HISTORY OF SADDLEWORTH, IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY: • DOCUMENTING THE HISTORY OF SADDLEWORTH;• PROMOTING AN INTEREST IN THE HISTORY OF SADDLEWORTH;• FACILITATING RESEARCH INTO THE HISTORY OF SADDLEWORTH; AND• MAINTAINING A PUBLICLY ACCESSIBLE ARCHIVE AND LIBRARY RELATING TO THE HISTORY OF SADDLEWORTH.

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 · Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Other Charitable Purposes · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Oldham, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Society is in a strong and stable condition with finances sufficient to cover current and foreseeable needs. The Chairman reports that difficulties surrounding the financing of the Holly Bank project have eased considerably, aided by large donations from individual trustees. Membership numbers remain steady, and the Society is preparing for the opening of its new centre in mid-2026.

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

What the accounts disclose

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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.

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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.

Register events

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Michael Foxchair
• Christine Anne Barrow
• Kenneth Waddington
• Mary Frances Rodgers
• Paul Michael Buckley BSc

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

Operates in: Australia · Canada · New Zealand · Throughout England · United States

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

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

• SADDLEWORTH MUSEUM income £130k
• WHIMPLE HISTORY SOCIETY income £28k
• THE ESSEX SOCIETY FOR ARCHAEOLOGY AND HISTORY income £29k
• HORNSEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY income £580k
• SEAFORD MUSEUM & HERITAGE SOCIETY income £42k
• THE THOROTON SOCIETY OF NOTTINGHAMSHIRE income £38k

Side by side with its peers

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