LOWESTOFT MUSEUM

Registered charity 268011 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To promote and operate a Museum that is open to the public. The Museum is run solely by volunteers.

Objects

PROVISION AND MAINTENANCE OF A MUSEUM IN OR NEAR LOWESTOFT FOR THE EXHIBITION OF FINE AND USEFUL ARTS, ETHNOLOGY, ARCHAEOLOGY, GEOLOGY, BOTANY AND NATURAL HISTORY

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.

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

Registered contact address: East Suffolk, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds decreased to £16,622 from £19,127 in the prior year, while restricted funds increased significantly to £259,638 largely due to the completion of the MEND project. The trustees report that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, noting that the building is run by volunteers and income is dependent on variable donations and shop sales.

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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media 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.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• Rodney Duerdenchair
• Andree Gee
• Derek George Black
• Edward Diestelkamp
• IRENE ALMA O'TOOLE
• JOHN ROBERT STANNARD · trustee of 1 other charity
• Julie Elizabeth Walker · trustee of 1 other charity
• PAUL MACDONALD DURBIDGE
• Richard Mark Mundy
• Tony Howe

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

Operates in: Suffolk

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with UTTOXETER HERITAGE TRUST.

• UTTOXETER HERITAGE TRUST income £46k
• LOWESTOFT AND EAST SUFFOLK MARITIME SOCIETY income £27k
• THE TOWCESTER MUSEUM income £36k
• TOPSHAM MUSEUM income £58k
• THE MUSEUM BRIDPORT DORSET income £97k
• THE MUSE AT 269 income £540k

Side by side with its peers

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