THE ANTIQUARIAN HOROLOGICAL SOCIETY

Registered charity 260925 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To encourage the study of all matters relating to the art and history of time measurement. To foster and disseminate original research, and to encourage the preservation of examples of the horological and allied arts.

Objects

TO PRACTICE AND FOSTER THE STUDY OF ANTIQUARIAN HOROLOGY AND ALLIED SCIENCES AND OF ARTICLES USED OR DEALT IN BY PERSONS INTERESTED THEREIN, AND IN CONNECTION THEREWITH TO HOLD EXAMINATIONS AND TESTS, TO AWARD PRIZES, DIPLOMAS, MEDALS, CERTIFICATES AND SCHOLARSHIPS, TO FOUND AND MAINTAIN LIBRARIES AND COLLECTIONS OF ANTIQUE WATCHES, CLOCKS AND OTHER ALLIED OBJECTS AND TO DO ANYTHING WHICH WILL FURTHER RESEARCH AND STUDY OF THE SUBJECT AND OF THE MATERIALS AND ARTICLES OR ANY OF THEM.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Society reported a net deficit of £20,620 for the year ended 30 September 2025, with total reserves standing at £2,947,349. The trustees confirm that maintaining reserves at current levels provides sufficient resources in the event of adverse conditions, and the independent examiner reported no matters causing concern regarding the financial statements.

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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00541551

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• RUDE, Tabea — director, appointed 16/01/2025on trustee list
• HINES, Susan Victoria — director, appointed 07/05/2022on trustee list
• MANN, Christopher — director, appointed 07/05/2022on trustee list
• HOLMES, Anna Hermione — director, appointed 18/05/2019on trustee list
• WREN, Robert Woolgar — director, appointed 18/05/2019not on trustee list
• DESBOROUGH, Jane, Dr — director, appointed 18/05/2019on trustee list
• COLLANGES, Francoise Isabelle, Madame — director, appointed 14/10/2017on trustee list
• SCOBIE-YOUNGS, Keith Andrew — director, appointed 04/10/2017on trustee list
• STRATTON, James Richard — director, appointed 16/05/2015on trustee list
• STENNING, Richard Hartley — director, appointed 16/05/2015on trustee list
• NYE, James Gregor David, Dr — director, appointed 15/01/2009on trustee list
• ROONEY, David John, Dr — director, appointed 15/01/2009on trustee list
• CHAPMAN, Helen Kate — secretary, appointed 12/07/2018

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr JAMES NYEchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Anna Hermione Holmes
• Christopher Mann
• DAVID ROONEY · trustee of 1 other charity
• FRANCOISE ISABELLE COLLANGES
• JAMES STRATTON
• JANE DESBOROUGH
• KEITH ANDREW SCOBIE-YOUNGS
• RICHARD STENNING
• Robert Woolgar Wren FBHI
• Susan Victoria Hines
• Tabea Rude

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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• SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF LONDON income £2.6m
• THE SUSSEX ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY income £1.6m
• THE ASTROLOGICAL ASSOCIATION income £112k
• ECONOMIC HISTORY SOCIETY income £397k
• THE SILVER SOCIETY income £1.4m
• THE SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS OF GREAT BRITAIN income £129k

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