NORFOLK AND SUFFOLK AVIATION MUSEUM LIMITED

Registered charity 281804 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Museum has been run by volunteers since 1972 and owns its 11-acre site. There is an admission charge and 22,000 visitors pa view 60 aircraft plus over 45,000 aviation artefacts. Aviation history in the eastern counties predominates in the collection. School, Scout and other social groups are welcomed throughout the year and members visit local residential care homes.

Objects

TO ESTABLISH AND MAINTAIN FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE NATION AN AERONAUTICAL MUSEUM AND FOR THE LIKE PURPOSE TO PROMOTE THE PERMANENT PRESERVATION OF MILITARY AND OTHER AIRCRAFT AND OTHER FORMS OF CONVEYANCE AND PROPULSION, AND EQUIPMENT AND ITEMS OF GENERAL AERONAUTICAL INTEREST OF ACTUAL OR POTENTIAL HISTORIC OR SCIENTIFIC IMPORTANCE AND EDUCATIVE VALUE AND TO ACQUIRE AIRCRAFT, AIRCRAFT COMPONENTS, AERONAUTICAL EQUIPMENT AND ASSOCIATED ITEMS. (FOR FURTHER DETAILS SEE MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION).

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.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £46,893 for the year, driven largely by a legacy receipt. Free reserves stood at £262,716, which is above the trustees' stated minimum strategic reserve target of £84,500, indicating adequate short-term cash flow headroom.

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 5 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
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (15/12/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alan Irvine
• Brian Johnson
• Clive Andrew MacDonald Chapman
• Ivor Day
• John Leslie Self
• Lester Alec Curtis
• Martin Jeffrey Hopkinson
• PAMELA VEALE
• Paul Ashton Hunt
• STEPHEN PETER BELL

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CITY OF NORWICH AVIATION MUSEUM.

• CITY OF NORWICH AVIATION MUSEUM income £236k
• GATWICK AVIATION MUSEUM income £222k
• THE SOLWAY AVIATION SOCIETY LIMITED income £115k
• GLOUCESTERSHIRE AVIATION COLLECTION income £130k
• THE FARNBOROUGH AIR SCIENCES TRUST income £126k
• ARMY FLYING MUSEUM LIMITED income £1.1m

Side by side with its peers

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