LONDON AND MIDDLESEX ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Registered charity 267552 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LAMAS

Programme of lectures and walks/visits. Publishes Newsletter and Transactions.

Objects

(A) TO PROMOTE, IN CO-OPERATION WITH OTHER SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS, THE STUDY OF THE ARCHAEOLOGY, LOCAL HISTORY AND HISTORIC BUILDINGS OF GREATER LONDON AND THE LONDON REGION. (B) TO PUBLISH THE RESULTS OF SUCH STUDIES IN "TRANSACTIONS" OR OTHERWISE. (C) TO STIMULATE THE STUDY OR ARCHAEOLOGY AND LOCAL HISTORY THROUGH LECTURES, VISITS, THE MAINTENACE OF A LIBRARY AND OTHER MEANS, AND TO ASSIST LOCAL SOCIETEIS FORMED FOR THAT PURPOSE. (D) TO UNDERTAKE AND ENCOURAGE RESEARCH AND EXCAVATIONS. (E) TO PROMOTE THE PRESERVATION AND RECORDING OF HISTORIC BUILDINGS, ANCIENT MONUMENTS, DOCUMENTS AND OTHER REMAINS.

Area of benefit: GREATER LONDON AREA

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’s finances were healthy at the end of the year, with unrestricted funds totaling £118,755 and total net assets of £125,860. The trustees report that these net assets are sufficient to cover current and prospective expenditure, including research grants and the restricted publications fund. The Society does not hold designated reserves but has £40,000 invested in longer-term deposit accounts.

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 3 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.

• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• HARVEY LEWIS SHELDONchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Alexander Paul Davidson Werner · trustee of 1 other charity
• Colin Hugh Southall MSc
• David Charles Gordon · trustee of 2 other charities
• Dr Elizabeth Jane Sidell
• Jane Wheeler MA MSc PhD
• John Michael Shemilt PhD
• KAREN LINDA THOMAS
• KATHRYN ELIZABETH STUBBS
• Margaret Elizabeth Bolton MA
• Richard Stuart Ward MA
• Robin Guy Densem FSA
• Roy Stephenson MIFA FSA · trustee of 1 other charity
• Stephanie Ostrich MA
• Stephen William Gill DMS

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

Operates in: Throughout London

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Government & lottery funding

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