Walpole Old Chapel Trust

Registered charity 1198030 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE FRIENDS OF WALPOLE OLD CHAPEL

The Friends of Walpole Old Chapel help to care for, maintain and develop Walpole Old Chapel, for the benefit of the general public. We also help to educate the general public about the historical and cultural significance of the chapel by opening the building to the public and by providing educational material, displays and performances

Objects

TO SECURE, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY AND THE PUBLIC GENERALLY, THE PRESERVATION, REPAIR, MAINTENANCE, AND DEVELOPMENT OF WALPOLE OLD CHAPEL, TOGETHER WITH ITS CONTENTS, BURIAL GROUND, AND CURTILAGE.TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE OF WALPOLE OLD CHAPEL.

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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Latest income
£19k
Latest spending
£10k
Registered
2022

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Policies the charity declares

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

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Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2025

  • Volunteers: 25

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2024

  • Volunteers: 25

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2023

  • Volunteers: 25

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 24/04/2024, 84 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

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

Operates in: Suffolk

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£19k£10k
31/03/2024£11k£7k
31/03/2023£8k£8k

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Heritage Fund10/09/2025£96k"Walpole Old Chapel Unwrapped – Saving the Chapel for its Next Chapter"