ESSEX SHIRE HALL TRUST

Registered charity 1204500 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ESSEX SHIRE HALL TRUST TRUST

Art/Culture/Community/Science

Objects

1. THE PRESERVATION AND RESTORATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT OF THE HISTORIC GRADE 11* LISTED BUILDING KNOWN AS THE ‘SHIRE HALL, CHELMSFORD’ AND THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN ITS HERITAGE AND THE HERITAGE OF CHELMSFORD AND THE COUNTY OF ESSEX.2. THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ARTS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT THROUGH THE PUBLIC DISPLAY AND EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS AND ARTWORK OF ARTISTIC MERIT AT THE SHIRE HALL, CHELMSFORD.3. TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES IN CHELMSFORD AND THE SURROUNDING AREA IN THE WELFARE RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL CIRCUMSTANCES WITH OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITION OF LIFE.

Area of benefit: LOCAL

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 · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Chelmsford, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity is in the early stages of setup with no unrestricted reserves held at the year-end. Financial sustainability relies on a £100,000 loan from Essex County Council and future applications to the Heritage Lottery Fund. The accounts do not disclose specific staff remuneration figures or independent audit opinions.

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 1 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.

• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 2 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 01/06/2024 (received 11/04/2025, 10 days after the 01/04/2025 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

• Howard Stephen Rolfechair
• JOHN FRANCIS ALDRIDGE · trustee of 5 other charities
• Mark Ian Springett
• PHILIP JOHN TOLHURST · trustee of 3 other charities
• Patrick Charles Stephen Foster
• Richard Alfred Madden · 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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Government & lottery funding

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