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)

The advancement of education; and the advancement of the arts, culture, heritage and science.

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that consolidated income increased by 10.9% to £27.7 million, resulting in a net surplus of £1.1 million. Total net assets rose to £9.1 million, with available unrestricted reserves of £7.1 million, which the trustees confirm are sufficient to maintain the charity as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HaysMac 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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

4 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

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

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

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (100% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• 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

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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 WESSEX RIVERS TRUST.

• WESSEX RIVERS TRUST income £1.8m
• GROUNDWORK WEST MIDLANDS income £4.1m
• WESSEX MUSEUMS TRUST income £488k
• OXFORD ARCHAEOLOGY LIMITED income £27.6m
• CANTERBURY ARCHAEOLOGICAL TRUST LIMITED income £2.7m
• WESLEY HALL COMMUNITY CENTRE LTD income £761k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.