AMBERLEY MUSEUM & HERITAGE CENTRE

Registered charity 278722 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q4741361 · Wikipedia · also known as AMBERLEY CHALK PITS MUSEUM, AMBERLEY MUSEUM, AMBERLEY WORKING MUSEUM, SOUTHERN INDUSTRIAL HISTORY CENTRE

The company was established to operate the museum at Amberley, to preserve and restore artefacts of interest and importance that might otherwise be destroyed, to maintain and develop the unique collections and by exhibitions, demonstrations, lectures printed publications and other means to educate the public in the tools, inventions, technologies, customs and social history of previous generations

Objects

TO PROVIDE AND MAINTAIN A CENTRE OR CENTRES IN THE SOUTH EAST OF ENGLAND FOR THE EXHIBITION TO THE PUBLIC OF SPECIMENS OF MACHINERY, EQUIPMENT, BUILDINGS AND INVENTIONS OF WHATEVER NATURE OF HISTORICAL OR EDUCATIONAL INTEREST AND SUCH OTHER OBJECTS OF THE FINE AND USEFUL ARTS, ARCHAEOLOGY AND GEOLOGY INCLUDING TECHNIQUES OF INDUSTRIAL MILITARY AND PLANNING PROCESSES, RURAL ARTS, CRAFTS AND INDUSTRY AND OTHER ACTIVITIES SHOWING HUMAN CREATIVITY OF AN HISTORICAL OR EDUCATION INTEREST.

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

Registered contact address: Horsham, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net surplus of £171,799 for the year ended 31 December 2025, with total consolidated income of £1,236,447. Unrestricted free reserves stood at £973,658, providing a significant buffer against operational risks. The accounts were prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified by the independent auditors.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Parkers. 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• 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

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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01402483
• Trading subsidiary: AMBERLEY MUSEUM (RETAIL) LTD Companies House 01995781

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Amberley Museum & Heritage Centre (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Surrie Everett-Pascoe — Chair of Board of Trustees (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• OATES, Stephen Michael — director, appointed 13/10/2026on trustee list
• THOMAS, Juliet Alice — director, appointed 13/07/2026on trustee list
• CLAYTON, Scott Christian — director, appointed 13/10/2025on trustee list
• BERNSTEIN, Paul Gregory — director, appointed 10/02/2025on trustee list
• WATSON, Jeremy Daniel Mckendrick, Professor — director, appointed 10/02/2025on trustee list
• WINSTONE, Michael — director, appointed 10/02/2025on trustee list
• ORMAN, Steven Allan John — director, appointed 13/12/2024on trustee list
• BUTCHER, Adrian — director, appointed 23/08/2021on trustee list
• EVERETT-PASCOE, Surrie June — director, appointed 11/11/2019on trustee list
• VINCENT, Jonathan Robert — director, appointed 21/01/2019on trustee list

Official officers record.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~11.0 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (45% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 26.4% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (23/06/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Adrian Butcher
• Jonathan Robert Vincent
• Juliet Alice Thomas
• Michael Robert Winstone
• Paul Gregory Bernstein
• Professor Jeremy Daniel McKendrick Watson
• Scott Christian Clayton
• Stephen Michael Oates · trustee of 2 other charities
• Steven Allan John Orman
• Surrie June Everett-Pascoe

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

Operates in: West Sussex

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with AMESBURY HISTORY CENTRE.

• AMESBURY HISTORY CENTRE income £64k
• HASLEMERE EDUCATIONAL MUSEUM income £282k
• THE MALVERN MUSEUM SOCIETY LIMITED income £26k
• MUSEUM OF BRANDS income £851k
• THE SIR MAX AITKEN MUSEUM income £113k
• BRIGHTLINGSEA MUSEUM income £29k

Side by side with its peers

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