TAVISTOCK MUSEUM

Registered charity 1200011 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provide a museum to educate and inform the public of Tavistock and direct and display, store and conserve artefacts, photographs and documents pertaining to its heritage.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL, RELIGIOUS, SOCIAL, CULTURAL INDUSTRIAL AND HISTORIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE TOWN OF TAVISTOCK AND ITS IMMEDIATE VICINITY AND ITS RELATION TO THE WIDER HISTORY AND HERITAGE OF THE UK AND SOUTH-WEST ENGLAND, BY THE SETTING UP AND MAINTENANCE OF A MUSEUM AND COMMUNITY HERITAGE CENTRE WHICH PROVIDES A DIVERSE PROGRAMME OF EXHIBITIONS, WORKSHOPS AND OUTREACH EVENTS.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

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• Internal risk management policy and procedures
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• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
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• Volunteer management

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (15/07/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Harry Smithchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Alison Claire Cooper
• Geoff Savage
• Kay Louise Stead
• Kevin Dickens
• Lesley Holliday
• Roderick Malcolm John Martin

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

Operates in: Devon

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