AVONCROFT MUSEUM OF HISTORIC BUILDINGS

Registered charity 241644 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q4829273 · Wikipedia · also known as AVONCROFT MUSEUM OF BUILDINGS LIMITED

Avoncroft is a museum of historic buildings rescued from imminent destruction and carefully rebuilt on an open-air site near Bromsgrove in the north of Worcestershire. Our principal aim isTo inspire enthusiasm for and understanding of the history of building as illustrated at Avoncroft, and the relationship of people with the buildings they constructed and in which they lived and worked.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE HISTORY OF BUILDING AS ILLUSTRATED AT AVONCROFT AND IN THE RELATIONSHIP OF PEOPLE WITH THE BUILDINGS THEY CONSTRUCTED AND IN WHICH THEY LIVED AND WORKED

Area of benefit: COUNTIES OF WORCESTER, WARWICK, STAFFORD, HEREFORD, SALOP.

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

Causes: Education/training · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a group surplus of £28,450 for the year ended 31 December 2025, reversing a deficit from the previous year. The trustees report that free reserves have dipped below the stated policy target of six months' costs due to planned investment but are being steadily rebuilt.

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 5 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints 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
• Paying staff
• 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
• Volunteer management

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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

4 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (38% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 25.0% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (02/03/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• MARK ARMSTRONGchair
• Adele Wood
• Edward James Kenneth Tolcher
• Lucy Hockley · trustee of 1 other charity
• Michael Paul Smith
• sarah BEAUCHAMP

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

Operates in: Birmingham City · Coventry City · Dudley · Herefordshire · Shropshire · Solihull · Staffordshire · Warwickshire · Wolverhampton · Worcestershire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with RADSTOCK MUSEUM.

• RADSTOCK MUSEUM income £38k
• AMBERLEY MUSEUM & HERITAGE CENTRE income £1.2m
• WALLINGFORD MUSEUM income £31k
• AMESBURY HISTORY CENTRE income £64k
• MUSEUM OF ARCHITECTURE income £145k
• THE HERTFORD MUSEUM CHARITY income £276k

Side by side with its peers

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