CHURCH MONUMENTS SOCIETY

Registered charity 1197588 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity organises visits symposia and other events to further public understanding and appreciation of funerary monuments of historical, artistic, architectural importance and related arts of all periods and all countries. The charity will promote physical conservation of funerary monuments and will draw attention to monuments under threat.

Objects

TO PROMOTE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFITS, THE STUDY, CARE AND CONSERVATION OF FUNERARY MONUMENTS OF HISTORICAL, ARTISTIC OR EDUCATIONAL IMPORTANCE AND RELATED ART OF ALL PERIODS AND OF ALL COUNTRIES.

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: Gedling, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that net assets increased to £83,638 from £73,807 in the previous year, driven by a net income of £9,831. The charity holds £68,638 in unrestricted reserves, providing a buffer against future expenditure, while total assets including investments stood at £132,606.

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 4 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
• 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
• 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
• 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.

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 3 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 12/02/2024, 12 days after the 31/01/2024 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Skelton
• JONATHAN NEIL DAWSON · trustee of 1 other charity
• Moira Ackers
• Moira Gittos

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

Operates in: 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 THE ANCIENT MONUMENTS SOCIETY.

• THE ANCIENT MONUMENTS SOCIETY income £75k
• CHURCHES CONSERVATION income £408k
• THE ANCIENT MONUMENTS SOCIETY income £369k
• THE MUSEUMS ASSOCIATION income £2.2m
• COUNTY CLASSICS MOTOR MUSEUM income £381k
• MOORLANDS CHURCH income £633k

Side by side with its peers

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