THE HAMPSHIRE FIELD CLUB AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Registered charity 243773 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE HAMPSHIRE FIELD CLUB AND ARCHAELOGICAL SOCIETY

History and Archaeology

Objects

(A)TO PROMOTE THE STUDY OF AND RESEARCH INTO ARCHAEOLOGY, HISTORY, HISTORIC BUILDINGS, LANDSCAPE, GEOLOGY AND NATURAL HISTORY WITHIN THE COUNTY OF HAMPSHIRE, AND TO PUBLISH THE RESULTS APPROPRIATELY. B) TO ENCOURAGE THE PRESERVATION AND CONSERVATION OF BUILDINGS, HISTORIC REMAINS, HISTORICAL RECORDS AND ALL OTHER OBJECTS OF IMPORTANCE FOR THE SUBJECTS SPECIFIED AND AREAS OF IMPORTANCE FOR THE SUBJECTS IN 1(A) IN THE COUNTY.

Area of benefit: HAMPSHIRE

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

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

Latest income
£17k
Latest spending
£12k
Registered
1965
Accounts read
FY2024

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity balanced its receipts and payments for the year, resulting in a net surplus of £11,744. Free reserves stood at £80,766, which exceeds the trustees' stated policy target of maintaining reserves to cover at least two years' gross expenditure. The filing confirms no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: two years’ gross expenditure (held: £81k)
“The Society’s policy is to maintain reserves that would cover at least two years’ gross expenditure”
Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Hampshire

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/12/2025£17k£12k
31/12/2024£34k£24k
31/12/2023£16k£10k
31/12/2022£19k£19k
31/12/2021£21k£16k

Common questions

Is THE HAMPSHIRE FIELD CLUB AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY financially healthy?

Per its FY2024 accounts: The accounts state that the charity balanced its receipts and payments for the year, resulting in a net surplus of £11,744. Free reserves stood at £80,766, which exceeds the trustees' stated policy target of maintaining reserves to cover at least two years' gross expenditure. The filing confirms no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern. Its FY2024 accounts were independently examined.

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
UK government—£583ALB-Historic England-Emergency Investigation Assistance: Oliver?s Battery, Winchester
UK government—£3kALB-Historic England-EHT: Carisbrooke Castle: garden evaluation