THE NORFOLK ARCHAEOLOGICAL TRUST

Registered charity 274604 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The principal activities of the Trust continue to be the management and conservation of the Trust's properties.

Objects

TO PROMOTE AND FOSTER THE DISCOVERY, EXCAVATION, PRESERVATION, RECORDING AND STUDY OF SITES AND OBJECTS OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND/OR HISTORICAL IMPORTANCE WITHIN THE COUNTY OF NORFOLK FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT.

Area of benefit: NORFOLK

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: South Norfolk, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Trust reported a surplus on unrestricted activities of £14,840 before investment gains for the year ended 31 March 2025. The trustees confirm that free reserves amounted to £58,315, which is above the stated policy minimum of £50,000, and that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for at least twelve months.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• 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
• 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
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Property (HM Land Registry)

22 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (19 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• Jonathan Sisson FCAchair
• Alan Staton
• Andrew Rogerson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Joanne Marie Lester
• HENRY JOHN KILVERT
• MATTHEW THOMAS MARTIN · trustee of 3 other charities
• Natasha Clair Gillian Hutcheson
• Nicholas David Balaam · trustee of 1 other charity
• Nicholas Mark Lowe
• Paul Robert Johnson
• Professor Elizabeth Mary Pye · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor Owen Herbert Warnock
• Simon Fowler · trustee of 5 other charities

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

Operates in: Norfolk

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with NORFOLK HISTORIC BUILDINGS TRUST.

• NORFOLK HISTORIC BUILDINGS TRUST income £157k
• CANTERBURY ARCHAEOLOGICAL TRUST LIMITED income £2.7m
• NORFOLK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £7.3m
• NORFOLK RIVERS TRUST income £2.8m
• NORFOLK MUSEUMS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION income £166k
• THE ANTIQUITY TRUST income £93k

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