SANDELL TRUST

Registered charity 276879 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

This charity provides income to support the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society (Charity No. 309534).

Objects

TO OR FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE WILTSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SCIETY OF LONG STREET, DEVIZES.

Area of benefit: WILTSHIRE

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 · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted reserves of £1,158,750 as of 31 March 2025, derived from cash funds and an investment portfolio valued at £1,139,407. The trustees report that there were no material liabilities during the year, and the charity generated a small excess of receipts over payments. The filing indicates a stable financial position with no disclosed risks to continuing operations.

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.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• ALAN RAYMOND SIMS · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr JAMES FLOOD · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr JAMES FLOOD · trustee of 1 other charity
• JOHN NICHOLAS D'ARCY · trustee of 3 other charities
• PAUL TUMIM
• Paul Andrew Vernon

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

Operates in: Wiltshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE SALISBURY AND SOUTH WILTSHIRE MUSEUM TRUST.

• THE SALISBURY AND SOUTH WILTSHIRE MUSEUM TRUST income £1.8m
• WESSEX ARCHAEOLOGY LIMITED income £27.7m
• THE SHANDFORD TRUST income £80k
• WOODLEY SANDFORD AND CHARVIL CHARITABLE TRUST income £166k
• SANCTUARY TRUST LIMITED income £2.6m
• HOUSE OF WISDOM TRUST SWINDON income £133k

Side by side with its peers

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