CORNWALL FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY

Registered charity 288686 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CFHS

Family history & genealogy

Objects

THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE SOCIETY ARE TO PROMOTE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH INTO THE GENEALOGIES AND HISTORIES OF CORNISH AND OTHER FAMILIES FOR PUBLIC BENEFIT.

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: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Cornwall, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net expenditure of £11,086 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total net assets from £139,976 to £128,890. Unrestricted funds decreased from £108,027 to £96,941, while restricted funds remained stable at £31,949. The accounts are unaudited and subject to independent examination, with no material uncertainties or governance issues disclosed.

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 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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding 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.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• JAMES COFER
• LYNNE TASKER
• Lynda Anne Quee
• SYLVIA DYER

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

Operates in: Australia · Canada · Cornwall · Devon · New Zealand · Somerset · United States

Income and spending

Common questions

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE DRONFIELD HERITAGE TRUST.

• THE DRONFIELD HERITAGE TRUST income £316k
• THE BIRMINGHAM AND MIDLAND SOCIETY FOR GENEALOGY AND HERALDRY income £48k
• THE FEDERATION OF FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETIES income £65k
• THORNHILL SCHOOL ASSOCIATION income £56k
• THE CORNWELL CHARITABLE TRUST income £38k
• C AND G FUND LIMITED income £63k

Side by side with its peers

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