WESSEX ARCHAEOLOGY LIMITED

Registered charity 287786 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WESSEX ARCHAEOLOGY · also registered in Scotland as SC042630 (OSCR)

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Latest income

£27.7m

Latest spending

£26.6m

Registered

1983

Accounts read

FY2024

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity returned to a surplus of £2.4m for the year ended 31 March 2024, following a deficit in the previous year. Total funds increased to £7.8m, which the trustees consider to be in line with their reserves policy target of three months' operating costs. The organization reports no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern.

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: three months' operating costs (c. £6m) (held: £5.6m)

“the minimum reserves were set at three months’ operating costs (c. £6m).” — page 9

Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Payments to trustees: C. Brayne received remuneration of £108,246 (salary), £2,838 (pension), and £5,134 (benefit in kind).

“The salary, pension contribution and benefit in kind was in relation to C. Brayne for the current and previous year.” — page 26

Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Trading subsidiary: Wessex Archaeology Ventures Limited, Trident WA GmbH

“The Charity has a trading subsidiary, Wessex Archaeology Ventures Limited which is the sole shareholder of Trident WA GmbH Germany.” — page 11

Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Haysmacintyre LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Stuart Eve — Chief Executive Officer (source)
Ian Dunn — Chair (source)
Caroline Budd — Chief People Officer (source)
Abby Bryant — Chief Commercial Officer (source)
Stephen Smith — Chief Financial Officer (source)
Louise Tizzard — Data, Innovation & Technology Director (source)
Jayne Lomax — Sustainability & Carbon Management Director (source)
Andrea Burgess — Business Systems & IT Director (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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Total income

£27.7m

Total spending

£26.6m

Reserves (reported)

£8.9m

Employees

387

Reported reserves equal ~4.0 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Trustees

Alexander Paul Schultz
Dr Natasha Elena Gibson
Ian Derek Dunn
Kathryn Louise Culley
Professor Robin Gerald Skeates
Robert William Laddle
Sarah Marie Sek
Simon Jonathan Miller

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

Operates in: Australia · Falkland Islands · Germany · Guernsey · Ireland · Isle Of Man · Jersey · Netherlands · Northern Ireland · Norway · Scotland · Taiwan

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/03/2025	£27.7m	£26.6m
31/03/2024	£25.0m	£22.6m
31/03/2023	£22.8m	£24.6m
31/03/2022	£22.7m	£21.8m
31/03/2021	£21.3m	£20.2m

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Government & lottery funding

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

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	01/11/2023	£10k	"The Welcome Project"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	08/02/2023	£116k	"Digging for Erlestoke"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	26/07/2022	£10k	"Defensive Links: Burntisland's military past"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	26/10/2015	£92k	"Fishing industry protocol for archaeological discoveries: establishing a historic environment fisheries liaison officer"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	02/05/2012	£46k	"Project Florence"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	05/05/2010	£37k	"Celts and Romans in North WIltshire"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	18/10/2007	£50k	"Time Travelling by Water (TTBW)"