BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Registered charity 202014 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

PROMOTES INTEREST IN THE ANTIQUITIES OF BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE AND ENCOURAGES THE STUDY OF ARCHAEOLOGY BY HOLDING MEETINGS, PUBLISHING BOOKS, REPORTS AND PAPERS, PRINTING AND PUBLISHING ANCIENT RECORDS AND MANUSCRIPTS, MAINTAINING A LIBRARY, WHICH IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, AND ADVOCATING AND ENCOURAGING THE PRESERVATION OF SITES AND BUILDINGS OF HISTORIC AND ARCHITECTURAL INTEREST

Objects

TO PROMOTE AN INTEREST IN THE ANTIQUITIES OF BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE, AND TO ENCOURAGE THE STUDY OF ARCHAELOGY.

Area of benefit: PRINCIPALLY BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTER.

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 · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds general net reserves of £461,616, an increase from the previous year's £394,790. The charity does not undertake fundraising activities, relying instead on subscriptions, investment income, and donations for publications. The trustees report that no funds are in deficit and that the investment policy aim of protecting assets from inflation was achieved.

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.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• Gail Boylechair · trustee of 1 other charity
• ALAN CLARKE
• Dr GRAHAM JOSEPH BARTON
• Dr Jennifer Mary Butterworth
• KATE ANGHARAD BLACKMORE
• Stephen Richard Clews FMA MCIFA · trustee of 1 other charity
• WILLIAM LOVERIDGE HERBERT EVANS · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Bristol City · Gloucestershire · South Gloucestershire

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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