THE CHESHIRE MILITARY MUSEUM

Registered charity 272108 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE SOLDIERS OF CHESHIRE

Museum dedicated to life and times of soldiers of The Cheshire Yeomanry, The 22nd (CHESHIRE) Regiment, The Mercian Regiment and C Sqn RMLY Exhibits show history of regiments raised in Cheshire spanning 3 Centuries.Assists in research for individuals tracing family history.Extra commemmorative exhibitions throughout the year.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE EFFICIENCY OF THE REGIMENT; ANDTO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE HISTORY OF THE REGIMENTS AND FORMER REGIMENTS AND ANY OTHER MILITARY UNIT, REGIMENT OR SERVICE WITH PAST OR PRESENT CONNECTIONS TO THE COUNTY OF CHESHIRE;BY THE PROVISION AND MAINTENANCE OF THE REGIMENTAL COLLECTION.

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 · Armed Forces/emergency Service Efficiency · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £32,455 for the year, resulting in total unrestricted reserves of £457,215. The trustees confirm that these reserves are maintained at a level equivalent to between six and twelve months of expenditure, satisfying their stated reserves policy. The filing confirms the charity is operating on a going concern basis with adequate resources for the foreseeable future.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Brigadier Benjamin Wildechair
• HILARY WILLIAMS
• James Bede Etherington · trustee of 1 other charity
• Lt Col Richard Allan John Sernberg · trustee of 1 other charity
• Mark Hockedy
• NICHOLAS GLAZEBROOK
• Professor Helen O'Sullivan BSc MBA
• Richard Forde-Johnston · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Cheshire East · Cheshire West & Chester · Halton · Stockport · Tameside · Trafford · Warrington · Wirral

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE SOLDIERS OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE MUSEUM.

• THE SOLDIERS OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE MUSEUM income £129k
• KING'S OWN ROYAL BORDER REGIMENT MUSEUM FUND income £218k
• THE STAFFORDSHIRE REGIMENT MUSEUM TRUST income £133k
• ARMY FLYING MUSEUM LIMITED income £1.1m
• THE GUARDS MUSEUM TRUST income £751k
• CORPS OF ROYAL ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERS MUSEUM income £567k

Side by side with its peers

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