THE SOMERSET ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY

Registered charity 201929 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To promote the study of archaeology, natural history and history, with particular reference to the historic County of Somerset, in such ways, including publications and information technology, as the Board of Trustees may deem appropriate.

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£571k
Latest spending
£85k
Registered
1962
Accounts read
FY2024

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The provided document is an Annual Report of the Trustees and does not contain financial statements, income, expenditure, or balance sheet figures. Consequently, no financial health metrics such as reserves, trading status, or audit opinions can be extracted from this text.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Total income
£571k
Total spending
£85k
Cost of raising funds
£964
Reserves (reported)
£5k
Employees
1

Reported reserves equal ~0.8 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Bath And North East Somerset · North Somerset · Somerset

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/12/2024£571k£85k
31/12/2023£435k£68k
31/12/2022£54k£39k
31/12/2021£87k£125k
31/12/2020£81k£100k

Common questions

Is THE SOMERSET ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY financially healthy?

Per its FY2024 accounts: The provided document is an Annual Report of the Trustees and does not contain financial statements, income, expenditure, or balance sheet figures. Consequently, no financial health metrics such as reserves, trading status, or audit opinions can be extracted from this text.

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Heritage Fund03/05/2023£10k"Strengthening Governance"
Somerset Community Foundation13/11/2020£16kDiscovering Taunton's Norman Castle
UK government01/04/2020£25kALB-Historic England-Taunton Castle, Somerset
The National Lottery Heritage Fund13/03/2019£59k"Discovering TauntonÂ’s Norman Castle"

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE SIKH MISSIONARY SOCIETY (UK).

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
THE SOMERSET ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY£571k—0unclear—no doubt
THE SIKH MISSIONARY SOCIETY (UK) FY2025£216k——unclear—no doubt
THE COLNE VALLEY PARK TRUST FY2025£133k—0unclear—no doubt
THE ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE FUND FY2025£3.3m—0unclear—no doubt
ISLAMIC SOCIETY FOR WALES FY2025£265k—0unclear—no doubt
FRIENDS OF BATH ABBEY FY2025£144k—0unclear—no doubt

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.