ASSOCIATION OF THE FRIENDS OF THE BURTON ART GALLERY

Registered charity 281466 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FRIENDS OF BURTON ART GALLERY, FRIENDS OF THE BURTON ART GALLERY, FRIENDS OF THE BURTON GALLERY

To educate the public by its promotion, support, assistance, and improvements of the Burton Art Gallery and Museum, Bideford, Devon, through the activity of a group of Friends. The Friends activity includes short term exhibitions, lectures on artistic subjects, schools' education and assisting with purchases for the permanent exhibition.

Objects

FOR THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC BY PROMOTION, SUPPORT, ASSISTANCE AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE BURTON ART GALLERY THROUGH THE ACTIVITY OF A GROUP OF FRIENDS.

Area of benefit: BIDEFORD

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: Torridge, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net incoming resource of £10,747 for the year, bringing total free unrestricted reserves to £70,872. The trustees have set a reserves policy target of retaining an emergency reserve of £30,000, which is comfortably exceeded by the current position. The independent examiner confirmed that no material matters were identified that would hinder a proper understanding of the accounts.

Automated summary of the FY2024 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.

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

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

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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, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2022 (received 24/04/2024, 176 days after the 31/10/2023 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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Freelands Foundation — “Freelands Foundation today announces The Burton at Bideford in North Devon as one of the first winners of a major new £1.5 million awards sc…” (source page)
• The Headley Trust — “The Burton at Bideford has secured more than £100,000 from The Headley Trust to launch a new Curatorial Fellowship in Ceramics and expand re…” (source page)

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Pamela Jean Lilian Thompsonchair
• David Howell
• David Robert Thompson
• Dawn Maria Brookes-Ensor
• Hilary Sarah Catherine Marshall
• John Graeme Keeble
• Llinos Gale
• Peter David Steart

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

Operates in: Cornwall · Devon · Somerset

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with FRIENDS OF BRISTOL MUSEUMS, GALLERIES & ARCHIVES.

• FRIENDS OF BRISTOL MUSEUMS, GALLERIES & ARCHIVES income £165k
• FRIENDS OF BUXTON INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL income £203k
• ART FRIENDS MERSEYSIDE income £31k
• FRIENDS OF BRAMPTON income £31k
• FRIENDS OF BURLINGTON SCHOOL income £62k
• THE BURTON AT BIDEFORD income £715k

Side by side with its peers

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