SOCIETY FOR MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGY

Registered charity 216619 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Education, research, publicaton of research

Objects

THE SOCIETY’S OBJECT IS TO FURTHER THE STUDY OF UNWRITTEN EVIDENCE FOR THE 5TH TO 16TH CENTURIES AD, PRIMARILY IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.

Area of benefit: GREAT BRITAIN

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

Causes: Education/training · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £246,182 against total funds of £261,017, with no stated reserves policy target to compare against. The filing notes that the charity does not hold any investments and reports a net income surplus of £14,886 for the year.

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.

• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Helen Fenwick · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor Gorden Noble
• Professor Julian Richards
• Professor Susan Oosthuizen

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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