SUNDERLAND ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY

Registered charity 1205074 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Society provides, as a public benefit, an archive facility for the city of Sunderland which is made available to the general public on a weekly basis at its main location and has a permanent online presence.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE LOCAL HISTORY AND HERITAGE OF SUNDERLAND AND ITS ENVIRONS IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE PROVISION OF AN ARCHIVE,PUBLICATIONS,EXHIBITIONS AND TALKS.

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

Causes: Arts/culture/heritage/science · Other Charitable Purposes · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Sunderland, North East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds total £79,164, which exceeds the trustees' stated reserves policy target of twenty-four months of expenditure. The charity reported a net income of £79,164 for the year, funded by donations, subscriptions, and trading activities, with no restricted funds held.

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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 15036470 · Financial health read from its filings

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• STEWART, Barry — director, appointed 30/09/2024on trustee list
• CURTIS, Philip — director, appointed 11/09/2023on trustee list
• KING, Linda Alexandra — director, appointed 28/07/2023on trustee list
• THORNE, John Trevor — director, appointed 28/07/2023on trustee list

Official officers record.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (02/06/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• BARRY STEWART
• JOHN TREVOR THORNE
• Linda Alexandra King
• PHILIP CURTIS
• Peter Stoddart
• Sharon Vincent · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Sunderland

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SUNDERLAND CULTURE LIMITED.

• SUNDERLAND CULTURE LIMITED income £2.7m
• SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF LONDON income £2.6m
• SPALDING GENTLEMEN'S SOCIETY income £796k
• FRIENDS OF SOUTHWOLD LIBRARY income £46k
• SOUTHAMPTON ARCHAEOLOGY SOCIETY income £7k
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Side by side with its peers

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