BATH POSTAL MUSEUM

Registered charity 277419 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as POSTAL MUSEUM

Maintaining the Museum with varied and changing displays exhibiting Philatelic and Postal-related material of educational and historical interest or value.

Objects

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC BY PROVIDING AND MAINTAINING A PUBLIC MUSEUM FOR THE EXHIBITION OF PHILATELIC MATERIAL, WHICH IS OF EDUCATIONAL OR HISTORICAL INTEREST OR VALUE INCLUDING MATERIAL RELATING TO POSTAL HISTORY.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED IN PRACTICE BATH

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 · Amateur Sport · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bath and North East Somerset, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income
£25k
Latest spending
£4k
Registered
1979

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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.

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

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Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2025

  • Volunteers: 2

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2023

  • Volunteers: 3

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2022

  • Volunteers: 3
  • Government income: £1,214 — grants £1,214 (1); 9% of the £13,119 total gross income on the same return

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 4 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2024 (received 31/01/2026, 365 days after the 31/01/2025 due date); year ending 31/03/2023 (received 31/01/2026, 731 days after the 31/01/2024 due date); year ending 31/03/2022 (received 31/01/2026, 1096 days after the 31/01/2023 due date); year ending 31/03/2021 (received 22/10/2022, 264 days after the 31/01/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Bath And North East Somerset

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£25k£4k
31/03/2024£10k£17k
31/03/2023£12k£17k
31/03/2022£13k£18k
31/03/2021£14k£25k

Common questions

Who funds BATH POSTAL MUSEUM?

Funders whose own accounts filings name BATH POSTAL MUSEUM as a grant recipient include THE FIDELITY UK FOUNDATION, The Portal Trust, THE ROPER FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
THE FIDELITY UK FOUNDATIONFY2025£187kArts, Culture and Heritage
The Portal TrustFY2022£17kSort it! - Literacy & numeracy project for primary aged children
The Portal TrustFY2023£14kSort it! Early Years Maths Programme
THE ROPER FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2024£10k
THE ROPER FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2023£10k

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Heritage Fund21/03/2006£239k"Bath Postal Heritage Moves"