THAXTED WINDMILL TRUST CIO

Registered charity 1199545 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Trust's purpose is to promote for the benefit of the public the restoration, preservation and maintenance of John Webb's Windmill, Thaxted. This also includes the care of the collections of Agricultural, Social and Natural History housed within the Windmill Museum.

Objects

TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC THE RESTORATION, PRESERVATION AND MAINTENANCE OF THAXTED WINDMILL, ASSOCIATED AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY, IMPLEMENTS AND ITEMS OF SOCIAL AND NATURAL HISTORY AND TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE SAID WINDMILL AND THE CONTENTS HELD WITHIN.”

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: Uttlesford, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a deficit for the year of £86,177.86, resulting in a decrease in accumulated funds from £131,100.27 to £44,922.41. Despite this deficit, the trustees state that the rescheduling of projects allows for planned repairs to take place in 2026, and significant funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund and Historic England was secured to cover repair costs.

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 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.

• 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
• 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)

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — John Webb's Windmill Thaxted (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (29/11/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alan SAVILLEchair
• Andrew Jeremy Burchall
• Antony Dynamou
• Benjamin Allen
• Claire Wisbey
• DANIEL ST JOHN WHIDDETT
• Gail Gardner
• Ian Roberts
• Louis Paul Rapley Spinetti
• Mark Jeffrey Rickards
• VICTORIA KNIGHT · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Essex

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with FULBOURN WINDMILL CIO.

• FULBOURN WINDMILL CIO income £197k
• NORTH LEVERTON WINDMILL TRUST income £17k
• WILLESBOROUGH WINDMILL TRUST LIMITED income £31k
• HEAGE WINDMILL SOCIETY income £42k
• WALTHAM WINDMILL TRUST income £164k
• HECKINGTON WINDMILL TRUST income £222k

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